. Can cash solve poverty? Stephanie Keith/Getty Images On December 10, 2020, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced a $15 million donation for a policy pilot across several American cities. About seven months earlier, America’s economy had cratered amid the Covid pandemic, leaving behind a workforce desperate for funds. Until then, public responses to the crisis had been haphazard at best — stuck in Congressional gridlock, a meagre $1,200 relief package had only recently found its way into Americans’ bank accounts. In response, GiveDirectly, the philanthropic start-up that had sent millions to the African poor throughout the 2010s with funding […]
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