"The trial comes amid mounting evidence to suggest that giving money to those who need it is a surprisingly effective solution to poverty."
IThe issue with trials like this. Is the fact the participants know they are temporary.
There is a big difference between the things you can do with a short term cash flow. And a long term one.
And homelessness is more often about a lack of consistant income then short term.
The difference and how people choose to use it. Often leads to false data.
“At a time of severely strained public finances, we are keen to learn whether we can use money more effectively and more efficiently to tackle deep-rooted societal problems like homelessness,” said Michael Sanders, professor of public policy at King’s College London, which is leading the trial.
Every one of these economists should be made homeless, jobless and their assets frozen to see how they handle it.
Why is it that private finances are never talked about? Not corps but people, especially workers (and that includes involuntarily unemployed).
The UK pilot will recruit 360 people in England and Wales. Half will continue to receive their current level of support, while the other half will receive extra financial assistance, albeit not directly. The charity Greater Change will hold and spend money on behalf of participants to ensure that their benefits payments are uninterrupted.
So the homeless person is not given cash. The charity is given a cash fund to spend on an individual.
This one fact diffuses most criticisms of this scheme, but it keeps getting reported with clickbait headlines.
