4.3 Don't fund staffed anti-poverty programs when what's needed are direct payments.

Don’t automatically fund staffed programs that help people survive being poor, when what people need is money to be less poor. Inaccurate narratives about people in poverty continue to be reinforced by policy that reflects and reinforces widely-held assumptions that people are in poverty because they cannot manage money. In reality, most people living in poverty know how to stretch a dollar, but are not given enough choice in how to do so.

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