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Can $500 each month, no strings attached, improve health outcomes for people recently incarcerated?
A pilot study run by the SEICHE Center at Yale provides direct cash assistance to recently incarcerated people. For Verneisha Snow (above) the intervention is $500 every month, for six months, to each participant — no strings attached. "Luckily, I didn't get to do too much time. But I am a woman with a record. A lot of us have records, but we want to do better in life," Snow said. "And we're not often given those opportunities. We should allow people to grow, we should allow people to change." Snow’s been using her money to rent a music studio to produce hip hop and has close to 60,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Source: Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR On Point