I remember that story - it had to do with developing nations (African ones specifically) and instead of all the intermediaries, simply giving money to the families/people in (predominately) villages and towns who needed it. I feel like the actual results were pending but I could be wrong.

Unconditional Basic Income is not only profoundly effective for ameliorating poverty, but also the only way humanity can survive in an era of automation and machine intelligence.

I haven’t heard that NPR piece but I remember hearing about the program in Utah where they are giving homeless people apartments to live in for free, and have basically eliminated homelessness AND saved millions of dollars doing it.

There was a This American Life story about it: http://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…

There was definitely a This American Life segment on this topic. It was specifically giving money to criminals though. Act 2 of this episode: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives…

Direct cash payments to the poor are—by far—the most effective method of fighting endemic poverty. Not only do they build on local systems of knowledge, but moreover they are far more cost efficient and much easier to manage. All with added benefit of stripping out the disdainful paternalism to permeates so many other…

Thank you for this article. I think it touches on so many important topics- the segregation that the freeway only helped, the DRIVE from people in power for “measurable data” when those on the ground are just begging for more social workers, the meaninglessness of all that data, the use of it for getting more funding…

I think this is a really unfortunate outcome from the assumption that poverty and it’s solutions are a one-way street - “poor people just need to learn and do more and work harder to not be so poor.” A historic line of thinking that I see trickle down from the foundations and major donors who are funding these…

i hope there’s follow up to this. like i really hope.

SURE, SURE, DENY THE TRUTH ALL YOU WANT

it is the most important thing i have ever written, the trust must be known

omg imagine corgis in little dragon costumes

this is the most important thing i have ever read kelly

No she gets it back automatically because the Louisiana Purchase was sold by Napoleon, a USURPER

like, I wouldn’t sneeze at $8500 if someone were to offer it to me no strings attached

Wait, so why didn’t they believe Huskins and Quinn in the first place? Was it really just because the story seemed too ridiculous?

Take it from the Police fucking pension fund.

Congrats - you just used the power of the Internet to change someone’s mind. Not buying.

Isn’t kinda cool we’re the first humans in history to every see this? As an astronomy nerd, it's kinda awesome.