> Children should not be poor, but how can you ensure accountability on the part of the parents? What the TFA shows is that when you give parents money uncondi

> Children should not be poor, but how can you ensure accountability on the part of the parents? What the TFA shows is that when you give parents money unconditionally they do overwhelmingly spend it on their children. Once that is understood, you must evaluate any system for measuring accountability against the cost of that very low rate of abuse. If the means testing costs more than it saves and/or wrongly rejects too many people then whats the point of having it?