Hello and welcome to Seriously Queries Only. This is episode 321. I'm Thomas, and my

rapid test tells me I don't have COVID just a slight cold for now.

Congratulations.

Yeah, how are you doing?

Apparently I'm a loser today, so I'm not feeling great.

Yeah, that's an inside reference. See, here's the problem with that is only you and

I know what you're talking about. So we have a really interesting episode about giving

money to people, which is a thing I'm a fan of. In fact, I read a book by Ezra Klein's wife

Annie Lowry called Give People Money. It's how universal basic income would end poverty

revolutionize work and remake the world in 2018.

Are you sure about that?

Are you sure it wouldn't just make people do more drugs?

Yeah, I don't know.

Well, but think about the jobs that creates.

Oh, that's true.

No one ever talks about that. The drug jobs. Anyway, I remember reading that and liking it

and I generally as a progressive person and pretty in favor of just giving people money.

So that's where my biases are, but there's a study thing for us to look at today.

Yes, there is. There was a New York Times right up about this. Most obviously, the relevance

of the study we're going to be talking about is to the making the case that the expanded

child tax credit should be retained. And that's the, that's the angle that the New York

Times took on reporting it and why I was interested in digging into it.

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