I’m sort of tired to hearing so much propaganda such as this. I believe in giving to the poor. However, once back in the Rodney King days or rioting, the news media reported that “they are rioting in the ghettos because they’re hungry”. Rush commented at that time that the video he was seeing of the rioters showed rather that the looters and rioters were fat, muscular and well fed, probably on food stamps. - I remember a teacher commenting that the black girls at her school would sit down and eat a jumbo sized bag of potato chips at one sitting, while the so-called “rich” kids would eat a small bag of chips. Education in nutrition may well be the most needed commodity rather than more money to buy junk foods. However, that goes without saying that the kids would have to take any nutritional education to heart instead of rebelling if they didn’t get pizza every night. (I realize this is not PC. The truth hardly ever is.)
It takes intelligence to make intelligent choices. Sure, smart people can have great lapses in discipline, addictions, and so on, but overall they make better life choices than not-smart people.
More information does make a non-smart person smart.