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More Money Was Supposed to Help Poor Kids. So Why Didn’t It?

More Money Was Supposed to Help Poor Kids. So Why Didn’t It?

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For many, the logic seemed unassailable: Giving poor families money would measurably improve the lives of their children. And so, a few years ago, social scientists set out to test whether that assumption was right. The results of the experiment have shoc

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For many, the logic seemed unassailable: Giving poor families
money would measurably improve the lives of their children. And
so a few years ago, social scientists set out to test whether
that assumption was right.

The results of the experiment have shocked them.

Guest: Jason DeParle, a Times reporter who
covers poverty in the United States.

Background reading:

A rigorous experiment appears to show that monthly checks
intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their
well-being.

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Photo: Andrew Seng for The New York Times

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