A one-time gift of cash to the poorest may actually have more impact than you think. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/welfare-reform-d

A one-time gift of cash to the poorest may actually have more impact than you think. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/welfare-reform-direct-cash-poor/407236/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/we... > a $150 cash grant to poor women in the northern part of [Uganda] doubled their earnings within a year, while one-off $382 transfers to 16- to 35-year-olds were associated with 40-percent higher earnings four years later.