Old article updated with peer review today.
Please be hookers…
“Counter to really harmful stereotypes, we saw that people made wise financial choices,” Claire Williams, the CEO of Foundations for Social Change, told me.
Well look at that.
If you give someone $20, chances are that, yeah, they will spend it on some quick and cheap comfort to improve their lives in the short term (fast food, alcohol, drugs, etc.). But if you give someone a sizeable sum that will actually help them plan for a better future, the vast majority of people will do just that.
But that really goes against the whole “poverty is the result of a moral failing” concept that capitalist throught had been hammering into our heads for decades, so we certainly can’t be promoting that fact.
It’s nice to have a study to shove in someone’s face when they talk about homeless people as if they were all absolute addicts.
I wish facts > propaganda.
@TokenBoomer
@hoshikarakitaridia
unfortunately the study was rigged, if you read it you see the research people made being accepted for the money for selected people. This included no drugs, only within 2 years, 200 people only, not part with street culture of that area, etc. This is not good research, this is falsely research.It wasn’t rigged it just didn’t match what the headline implied. It wanted to show that people who have recently been made homeless can recover from the bad situation if given the means to do so.
That’s not been rigged. It’s called to have a method. You need that for a study. You can disagree with their method, but doesn’t mean it is “rigged”.
