On Welfare... or at least on discretionary and complicated cash payments to poor who jump through hoops

interesting idea. But I like the fact that they thought " holding down a full-time job" with a cash incentive of $150 a month was going to do the trick. Presumably there is already a cash incentive to having a full time job, and this would have subsidized those who already had jobs (which I'm fine with) but do absolutely nothing about creating more jobs. 

But it's very telling about what they think is at root in poverty: 25$ is not going to get anyone to attend school unless there is absolutely no good reason why they aren't in school already. It's a tiny push at the margins, implying that maybe when they designed the program they believed that the reason for truancy was just a tiny marginal preference for not going.