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Does Welfare Reduce Crime? With Manasi Deshpande

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The Impact of Welfare on Criminal Justice Involvement

de spande: Welfare disntentivizing work or keeping people out of crime is the empirical evidence that she was looking for. Over all, they found a statistically significant 20 % increase in criminal charges of people who lost their benefits. But even more enlightening when they looked at crimes having to do with income generation, the number rose to 60%.

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