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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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[–] fristislurper@feddit.nl -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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