Daily Kos: What happens when poor people get cash?
Mon Jan 20, 2014 at 12:14 PM PST.
What Happens when Poor People get Cash? An Empirical Study.
byDave in Northridge
Remarkably important article in Saturday's New York Times, by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, "What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?" It tells the story of what happened to the lives of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after they opened a casino in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1997. Admittedly, this is because the casino made a profit, but the lessons learned by scholars from Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA who studied the Cherokees have significant implications for why Lyndon Johnson was right to enlist government forces to combat poverty.
This is Harrah's Cherokee Casino, which opened November 13, 1977 on the Cherokee reservation.
Some fascinating findings, and the debate that ensued, below the fold.
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We are all qualitatively aware that the establishment of Indian casinos, as provided for in the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 has been good for the Indian nations that have opened them. But the quantitative information detailing the social consequences of "having been good" and its impact particularly on children have not been widely disseminated, and that puts us at a disadvantage when we try to explain why something like welfare works. Fortunately, the announcement that this casino would be built spurred action among academics:
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No, of course they don't.
One way or another, they spend it. And the likelihood that it's spent on local enterprises is exponentially greater than when the 1% spend their money, I'll betcha!
