| Only the most dunderheaded academic could get this one wrong. The cure for poverty is money. But researchers were SURPRISED to find that every measure of psychological health was improved substantially: better school attendance; less obesity; better high school graduation; fewer doctor visits, lower crime rates; better HS graduation rates... These were the results when a Cherokee tribe in NC distributed casino profits to families (the boon maxed out at $9,000 per year per head). For years, they have been telling us that poverty is a tough problem. The cure to poverty is education, or counseling, or community-building. At root, they were telling us that people are poor because they are stupid and lazy and mean-spirited. The poor are not like us. That's how they got to be poor. Well, it just ain't so. The poor are just like you and me, except they don't have enough money. |
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