> High rates of poverty can, as a policy matter, be solved with trivial ease. How? By simply giving the poor money. It's been tried. It didn't work. How can th

> High rates of poverty can, as a policy matter, be solved with trivial ease. How? By simply giving the poor money. It's been tried. It didn't work. How can the author of this article be so ignorant of history, not just of the many experiments in communism and socialism, but of relatively limited, well-intentioned programs like AFDC in the U.S., programs that are now recognized as having made the problem worse? Giving the poor money is not, and never will be, "simple". Reasonable people may differ, but I personally think putting the money into education would be a better investment.