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In February 2019, the city of Stockton, California began giving people in need what they needed most: cash, with a $ 1 million grant from the Economic Security Project. They built their SEED (Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration) program on a simple but radical premise: “Poverty results from a lack of money, not from character.”
A team led by Amy Castro Baker of the University of Pennsylvania and Stacia Martin-West of the University of Tennessee wanted to find out what happens when 125 people living in low-income census areas receive a $ 500 monthly cash card -Dollars received. […]
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