The Benefits of Cash Without Conditions

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The Benefits of Cash Without Conditions
By TINA ROSENBERG

The poor are different from you and me, as F. Scott Fitzgerald might have said. They have less money.

Yet it makes news when a charity simply gives the poor cash. GiveDirectly, which two years ago began to give cash to very poor families in Kenya that they could spend however they wanted, is getting a lot of attention — most recently an article in the New York Times Magazine and a more in-depth piece on This American Life. More