Vox: “The most eye-popping finding is that the people who received the cash managed to secure full-time jobs at more than twice the rate of people in a control group, who did not receive cash. Within a year, the proportion of cash recipients who had full-time jobs jumped from 28 percent to 40 percent. The control group saw only a 5 percent jump over the same period.”
“The researchers wrote in their report that the money gave recipients the stability they needed to set goals, take risks, and find new jobs.”
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