Homeless
You pass a homeless person on the street. Should you give money or not? If you do, how will they spend it? An experiment in Canada finds that giving helps, but not small change. The New Leaf Project gave a $5,600 once-off cash payment to 50 homeless adults and compared them to 65 homeless people who received nothing. The results are startling: after one month, the number of days spent homeless dropped from 77% to 49% and food security rose to 67%, compared with 37% before. What’s more, spending on alcohol, cigarettes and drugs decreased 39% over 12 months.
— Wayne Visser
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