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From the Ted Talk by Joy Sun: Should you donate differently?
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Well, why did I spend a ddaece doing other sutff for the poor? Honestly, I beelveid that I could do more good with money for the poor than the poor could do for themselves. I held two assumptions: One, that poor people are poor in part because they're uneducated and don't make good choices; two is that we then need people like me to figure out what they need and get it to them. It tnurs out, the evidence says otherwise. In recent years, researchers have been studying what happens when we give poor people cash. dnzeos of studies show across the braod that people use cash transfers to ivrpome their own lives. Pregnant women in Uruguay buy better food and give birth to healthier babies. Sri Lankan men invest in their businesses. Researchers who studied our work in kyena found that poelpe invested in a range of assets, from livestock to equipment to home iemvpntmores, and they saw increases in income from bssuines and farming one year after the cash was sent. None of these studies found that people spend more on drinking or smoking or that people work less. In fact, they work more.
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Well, why did I spend a ______ doing other _____ for the poor? Honestly, I ________ that I could do more good with money for the poor than the poor could do for themselves. I held two assumptions: One, that poor people are poor in part because they're uneducated and don't make good choices; two is that we then need people like me to figure out what they need and get it to them. It _____ out, the evidence says otherwise. In recent years, researchers have been studying what happens when we give poor people cash. ______ of studies show across the _____ that people use cash transfers to _______ their own lives. Pregnant women in Uruguay buy better food and give birth to healthier babies. Sri Lankan men invest in their businesses. Researchers who studied our work in _____ found that ______ invested in a range of assets, from livestock to equipment to home ____________, and they saw increases in income from ________ and farming one year after the cash was sent. None of these studies found that people spend more on drinking or smoking or that people work less. In fact, they work more.
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- business
- believed
- decade
- people
- turns
- board
- stuff
- improve
- dozens
- kenya
- improvements
Original Text
Well, why did I spend a decade doing other stuff for the poor? Honestly, I believed that I could do more good with money for the poor than the poor could do for themselves. I held two assumptions: One, that poor people are poor in part because they're uneducated and don't make good choices; two is that we then need people like me to figure out what they need and get it to them. It turns out, the evidence says otherwise. In recent years, researchers have been studying what happens when we give poor people cash. Dozens of studies show across the board that people use cash transfers to improve their own lives. Pregnant women in Uruguay buy better food and give birth to healthier babies. Sri Lankan men invest in their businesses. Researchers who studied our work in Kenya found that people invested in a range of assets, from livestock to equipment to home improvements, and they saw increases in income from business and farming one year after the cash was sent. None of these studies found that people spend more on drinking or smoking or that people work less. In fact, they work more.
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