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So if you actually read what the program is here: Provide families with a average of $179/month if and only if they jump through a whole bunch of hoops, from do
by jellicle 9y ago
So if you actually read what the program is here: Provide families with a average of $179/month if and only if they jump through a whole bunch of hoops, from doctor visits (which they have to pay for) to school attendance to working more hours (each of which must be documented by the program participants), and then although the program did reduce poverty (give people money, they're less poor), it didn't make them into upper class people magically. So it didn't achieve its goals.
Probably the average participant ended up spending dozens of hours doing bureaucratic tasks each month to get that $179.
This is neoliberalism in a nutshell.
Meanwhile, worthy people like the Koch brothers can get a $1 billion to $1.4 billion (estimated ANNUAL benefit from most recent Trump tax cuts to them personally) donation straight from the Federal Treasury and have to do exactly nothing to show that they "deserve" it.
- saint_fiasco 9y agoThe doctor visits were probably necessary to measure the health outcomes. In a real-life version of the program, maybe they wouldn't be necessary. It's still silly that the participants had to pay for them in the study.