Photo by Alexander Mils on UnSplash By Sara Zaske, WSU News & Media Relations
Original article: https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2021/10/28/poor-parents-receiving-universal-payments-increase-spending-on-kids/
PULLMAN, Wash. – When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children, according to Washington State University research. The study, published in the journal Social Forces , also found that the additional funding had little impact on child-related expenditures of high-income parents.For the study, WSU sociologist Mariana Amorim analyzed spending by recipients of the Alaska Permanent Fund payments. Funded by state oil revenues, the fund is the closest program in the United States to […]
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