Even brief stays in poverty can cause children lifelong harm, and money helps prevent poverty.

Even brief stays in poverty can cause children lifelong harm, and money helps prevent poverty.

The virus doesn’t sicken kids as much as adults. But it can still destroy their futures. A child allowance would help. —

Three decades ago, a team of researchers at Duke University set off to follow a group of schoolchildren in a stretch of rural North Carolina that happened to include a small reservation. Soon after, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opened a casino and began sharing the profits, about $4,000 per adult each year, with every household in the tribe — essentially creating a local version of guaranteed income.

What followed should interest anyone concerned about America’s high […]

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