If you drink only water at restaurants, dwell in a dark home and force every last globule of toothpaste from the tube, you ...

Not going to college is one of the things people often think is a sign of laziness when it's done by poor people, even though ...

IDEAS Just give poor people money The Nobel-winning World Food Program is one of many agencies increasingly handing out cash rather than goods. But the international aid system still isn’t ...

Give Poor People Cash There’s a simple way to reform welfare: Send money to those who need it, without conditions.

Give poor people a guaranteed income and let them spend it however they please Why we should trust people to use cash aid without restrictions.

That finding is consistent with national survey results showing that lower-income people donate a greater percentage of their income to charity than upper-income people do. A second experiment built ...

The idea behind this is simple. Poor people know what they need, and if you give them money they can buy it. But to some veterans of the charity world, giving cash is worrisome.

There's people right now who are suffering due to the storms. Why would you tell people that there's no blessing in giving to the poor? Who do you think the Gospel was preached to throughout the text?

The poor people are eating more calories than they need. Yet we propose to stimulate the economy by giving the poor money that can only be spent on more food.

Having agreed that giving poor people resources undermines their motivation for self-help, the liberal and conservative camps fell to wrangling over whether generosity or maintaining incentives ...