(commenting the article, not the title) Here is the interim report of the randomized controlled trial: https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-12/M

(commenting the article, not the title) Here is the interim report of the randomized controlled trial: https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-12/Miracle%20Money_Nov%202023_FINAL_12.5.23.pdf https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/sites/default/files/2023-12/Mirac... There is already plenty of evidence of how poverty cripples cognitive capabilities and prevents long-term planning. Getting a leg up and slightly more financial security gives people a longer time horizon to plan forward. Well-off people who try living "in poverty" for short period don't experience the stress like people living in actual poverty and stress and can't understand how bad it is. The first path out of poverty is giving people some money without strings attached. On the psychology of poverty https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1232491 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1232491 Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1238041 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1238041