"The Economist" should change its name to "The Neo-Marxist Globohomolist"
The US Govt has been in the business of passing out food to America's lower classes since 1933, and the USA food stamp program started exactly 60 years.
It certainly hasn't raised the IQs of Americans on SNAP, and indeed, has helped ruin their families, made them fatter, more dependent, and worse citizens
Government money given to the poor results in more offspring by them