Saturday July 03, 2010
The Poverty Solution: Cash
Melinda Burns
Miller-McCune.com
A new book, “Just Give Money to the Poor,” says the poor will spend the cash wisely and boost the economy, too.
Back in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth, English lawmakers said it was the government and taxpayers. They introduced the compulsory “poor tax” of 1572 to provide peasants with cash and a “parish loaf.”
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