A cyclist rides along a street near the Tobin Memorial Bridge in Chelsea. (Steven Senne/AP) Giving cash to low-income people could result in fewer emergency department visits, a new study suggests.
The study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at almost 2,900 low-income people who applied for a lottery in Chelsea. Nearly 1,750 of them got up to $400 per month from November 2020 to August 2021.
The researchers then looked at health records and found that those who received the money had 27% fewer visits an emergency room in the nine-month period compared with those […]
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