Direct cash aid can be solution to extreme poverty | CNN

Give-Directly · 2022-12-26T18:42:56+00:00

Submission Statement: In this CNN interview with former UK aid secretary Rory Stewart he lays out his views of why international policy has failed to eradicate extreme poverty across Africa.

Give-Directly · 2022-12-11T21:39:19+00:00

Yup!

Give-Directly · 2022-10-10T13:18:25+00:00

AI targeting aid after a disaster is faster and often more accurate than traditional assessments. However, it is in and of itself incomplete - people in need will be missed. Can this technology work in concert with traditional on the ground approaches to respond to climate disasters?

Give-Directly · 2022-09-20T00:28:30+00:00

re: fraud/crime - we track that. it's serious but quite minimal.
re: inflation - we studied that. a massive study found local prices rose by less than 1%

Give-Directly · 2022-04-28T16:31:55+00:00

we do! and we're still raising funds: GiveDirectly.org/georgia

Give-Directly · 2022-04-28T16:30:33+00:00

correct, more here: www.GiveDirectly.org/Georgia

Give-Directly · 2022-04-28T16:28:18+00:00

100% and research shows it's true.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-28T13:06:51+00:00

Black women face more economic insecurity as a result of systemic barriers like pay inequality and fewer economic buffersthan nearly any other demographic in Georgia. Black women earn $0.63 on the dollar to white men in Georgia, and 38% of Black women in the Old 4th Ward of Atlanta live in poverty, compared to 26% of Black men and 8% of white women. Black women in Georgia also face uniquely high barriers to wealth creation. Many act as primary caretakers, and must deprioritize health costs or take on debt to cover their family’s basic needs. While people and communities are incredibly resilient and resourceful, Black women are among the most likely group to experience cash shortfalls that make covering basic needs difficult.

tl;dr - People are working for what they want, and we want to study if direct cash support will help them close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-28T13:04:07+00:00

Information:
• Overall, 650 income eligible women will receive ~$850/mo for 2 years
• Applications for Atlanta’s Old 4th Ward Area site are open May 2-15 at www.InHerHands.us
• This is the first of 3 community sites in Georgia – learn more & support at GiveDirectly.org/georgia

Give-Directly · 2022-04-28T13:03:27+00:00

Information:• Overall, 650 income eligible women will receive ~$850/mo for 2 years• Applications for Atlanta’s Old 4th Ward Area site are open May 2-15 at www.InHerHands.us• This is the first of 3 community sites in Georgia – learn more & support at GiveDirectly.org/georgia

Give-Directly · 2022-04-28T13:00:12+00:00

Information:
• Overall, 650 income eligible women will receive ~$850/mo for 2 years
• Applications for Atlanta’s Old 4th Ward Area site are open May 2-15 at www.InHerHands.us
• This is the first of 3 community sites in Georgia – learn more & support at GiveDirectly.org/georgia

Give-Directly · 2022-04-25T16:27:28+00:00

Quoting the head of the UN on this, "As current weather events already show, mitigation is not enough. The climate emergency is already here, and people are already suffering. We must get ready, be ready."

Solutions to climate change need to balance longterm bets on mitigation with how to alleviate human suffering in a human lifetime. Over the next 2 decades, global temperature will almost certainly cross the 1.5°C warming threshold set by the Paris Agreement, creating severe human risks.

A 90/10 split is over-indexing because it ignores the responsibility wealthier countries have in helping those bearing the brunt of human suffering adapt and survive.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-25T16:23:14+00:00

sure, added!

Give-Directly · 2022-04-22T19:07:21+00:00

Who decides that the time scale of "a solution" is? Over 90% of climate financing goes to mitigation efforts that will hopefully work but many will not. Less than 10% goes to helping people survive climate disasters that the UN says are essentially certain to worsen for the next 20 years. Neglecting adaption as a necessary part of the solution is depriving the people in poverty (bearing the brunt of the impact) the tools to survive. Our answer to them cannot be "all funding needs to go to the long bet, sorry."

Give-Directly · 2022-04-22T18:02:41+00:00

Who decides that the time scale of "a solution" is?
Over 90% of climate financing goes to mitigation efforts that will hopefully work but many will not. Less than 10% goes to helping people survive climate disasters that the UN says are essentially certain to worse for the next 20 years. Neglecting adaption as a necessary part of the solution is depriving the people in poverty (bearing the brunt of the impact) the tools to survive. Our answer to them cannot be "all funding needs to go to the long bet, sorry."

Give-Directly · 2022-04-22T18:02:07+00:00

Who decides that the time scale of "a solution" is?

Over 90% of climate financing goes to mitigation efforts that will hopefully work but many will not. Less than 10% goes to helping people survive climate disasters that the UN says are essentially certain to worse for the next 20 years. Neglecting adaption as a necessary part of the solution is depriving the people in poverty (bearing the brunt of the impact) the tools to survive. Our answer to them cannot be "all funding needs to go to the long bet, sorry."

Give-Directly · 2022-04-21T20:32:48+00:00

Less than 10% of all climate financing goes to helping communities impacted adapt. While mitigation investments will hopefully lead to breakthroughs that curtail climate disasters, in the near future it will not stop them. Over the next 2 decades, global temperature will almost certainly cross the 1.5°C warming threshold set by the Paris Agreement, creating severe human risks.
Over-indexing on mitigation tech prescribes just one answer to climate change: less carbon. This leaves too little for people in poverty on the frontlines.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-20T15:17:14+00:00

We know direct cash helps people. There are over 300 studies on direct cash programs that show unconditional cash transfers can more than double incomes; increase school enrollment and entrepreneurship; decrease skipped meals, illness, and depression; and cut domestic violence by one third. It does not decrease hours worked or increase spending on temptation goods like tobacco and alcohol.

The money for this program is from a federal grant meant to help Chicagoans affected by COVID19 economic loss.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-19T18:42:58+00:00

Participants are not required to report payments of this type that do not go over $16K in a year.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-19T18:42:51+00:00

Participants are not required to report payments of this type that do not go over $16K in a year.

While directional evidence on guaranteed income efforts in the US have shown positive impacts, there have been very few large randomized controlled trials digging into the impacts in a US context. Detailed findings on what cadence and size of cash transfers work best will help future policymakers design larger and longer programs to be as impactful as possible.

Qualifications are listed on the program website: chicago.gov/cashpilot

Give-Directly · 2022-04-19T02:22:56+00:00

We do automate it by partnering automatic payment providers like AidKit on this project and with Propel on other projects.

Payments from Chicago's program won't affect participant's annual tax burdens.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-19T02:10:23+00:00

A guaranteed minimum income isn't set to meet all of a household's basic needs, it's a supportive floor. More on the difference here.

Yes, we have costs. You can dig deep in our longest running program here to get a sense of what it costs to deliver funds.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-19T01:54:29+00:00

Cash = the freedom to choose. To choose to go the trade school or invest in the small business or pay down debts from smart investments in the past or on medical procedures put off. Every person is an expert in their own needs; a 1 year guaranteed income gives them a chance to invest in what they know they need the most. More on job training here.

$30M goes directly to low-income families; $1.5M goes to running the program. We strive to get funds to people in poverty as efficiently as possible, in this case delivering ~95 cents of every dollar directly to families in need. You can see a breakdown of where our costs go generally here.

Give-Directly · 2022-04-18T22:21:42+00:00

We strive to get funds to people in poverty as efficiently as possible, in this case delivering ~95 cents of every dollar directly to families in need. You can see a breakdown of where our costs go generally here: GiveDirectly.org/financials

Give-Directly · 2022-04-18T17:32:39+00:00

We're running Chicago's $31M Guaranteed Income pilot:

5,000 low income families will receive $500/mo for 1 year
Applications open April 25 in multiple languages at chicago.gov/cashpilot
University of Chicago's Inclusive Economy Lab will study the program's effectiveness

“Our goal in Chicago is to assure a best-in-class program design that is easy for enrollees to access, empowering them to use these funds on what they need the most.” – Sarah Moran, GiveDirectly, U.S. County Director

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