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Why I am not a liberal
When it comes to how to help people, the left in the US doesn’t grasp reality in all its fullness.
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Thinkers like Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer were willing to spend money to fight poverty, but they wanted the programmes to nurture the values that they had seen help people rise, says the writer.
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Last May, a study came out suggesting that merely giving people money doesn’t do much to lift them out of poverty.
Families with at least one child received US$333 (S$427) a month. They had more money to spend, which is a good thing, but the children fared no better than similar children who didn’t get the cash.
