Perhaps few American lottery winners have been nearly as poor as GiveDirectly recipients? Many of the GiveDirectly recipients I've read about are so poor they

Perhaps few American lottery winners have been nearly as poor as GiveDirectly recipients? Many of the GiveDirectly recipients I've read about are so poor they spend the money on things like sheet metal roofs for their houses (to replace the thatch) so they don't leak and fall apart in a year. That's a level of poverty much of the American poor don't have to contend with- it's been a hundred years since many Americans had dirt floors, and many more than that since many American houses were thatchtops.