Image by Getty / Futurism The idea of giving homeless people money, no questions asked, is a perennially controversial topic. The common argument against handing cash to the unhoused is that they’ll spend most of it on drugs, liquor, or cigarettes because of addiction issues.
But a recently published study from California seems like compelling evidence to the contrary. In 2022, a team of researchers from the University of Southern California, working with the San Francisco-based nonprofit Miracle Messages, studied the impact of giving $750 per month to 103 randomly selected homeless people in the San Francisco Bay area and […]
Full Post at futurism.com