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These negative stereotypes of how impoverished people will spend their money are usually not true in practice. See the following: https://www.givedirectly.org/p
by bdcs 12y ago
These negative stereotypes of how impoverished people will spend their money are usually not true in practice. See the following:
https://www.givedirectly.org/pdf/litreview_2.pdf https://www.givedirectly.org/pdf/litreview_2.pdf
http://www.poverty-action.org/blog/cash-or-cows http://www.poverty-action.org/blog/cash-or-cows
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100 http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100
- discardorama 12y agoConsider, for example, the case of the woman who was arrested for leaving her 2 kids in a hot car while she went in for an interview. There was a huge outpouring of support for her, and people collected $114K for her, to help her out. What did she do with the money? Read here: http://ktla.com/2014/11/19/mom-who-received-114k-in-donations-after-leaving-kids-in-hot-car-for-job-interview-facing-new-charges/ http://ktla.com/2014/11/19/mom-who-received-114k-in-donation...