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Unintended Consequences Impact Everything

Money For the Rest of Us

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Unintended Consequences of Social Action

The U.S. government does a point in time count every January counting the sheltered and unsheltered homeless. Unintended consequences are outcomes that were not expected when a particular course of action was pursued. Sociologist Robert Merton suggested there were three major factors that led to unintended consequences.

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