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My colleague David Brooks has an interesting and encouraging column about how Canada has reduced poverty, which emphasizes community activism and cooperation. All good stuff. But I suspect that money matters too ... 1/ nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opi…
Here's social spending on families from the OECD, as a percent of GDP. Do you think that the contrast between US cuts and sharp Canadian increases might have had some effect? 2/ 
And if we look across countries, social spending and poverty have a strong negative correlation. Maybe just giving money isn't enough; but more money for the poor does, in fact, help fight poverty 3/
