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The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 113 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (14 children)

How many studies that boil down to giving people money with no strings attached that always result in "well it improves their lives it seems" are we gonna have before people finally decide it's worth doing that stuff universally?

[–] fristislurper@feddit.nl -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is not going to go down well on Lemmy, but: not many studies boil down to this, unfortunately.

This article really changed my view on this https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/giving-people-money-helped-less-than

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This article is not saying money does not help, but saying it's not all it takes. I don't think this is a hot take at all

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

breaking news: family in uganda starving to death despite having €40000 to eat

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