Totally agree. When I taught high school in a impoverished area, someone somewhere said that poverty is acute lack of money, period. Everything else is a sympto

Totally agree. When I taught high school in a impoverished area, someone somewhere said that poverty is acute lack of money, period. Everything else is a symptom (or feedback cause). So we spend all this time creating convoluted strategies to address poverty, except actually giving people money. Obviously, doing so wouldn't fix all problems on Day One for all people, but I now suspect it would be a lot more efficient than a lot of our efforts, and it would make the remaining problems more tractable.