The first of three brief economic snapshots: An effective way of fighting poverty is to just give cash to the poor https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/americas/direct-giving-homeless-people-vancouver-trnd/index.html

This was also done effectively under Lula in Brazil. I find it very hard to square the conservative dicta about how economic actors are rational and will just take care of themselves if the government stays out of their business while also being opposed to demonstrably cheaper and efficient policies like this one.

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