Real-world experiments in messaging show that getting low-income people the help they need is more effective when stigma is reduced
- Written by Jessica Lasky-Fink, Research Director of the People Lab, Harvard Kennedy School
Stigma tied to poverty can create a barrier to the very help people need. @felipepelaquim for Unsplash.com, CC BY-SAThere are pervasive stereotypes that Americans who are low income and access government assistance are lazy, lack a work ethic and are even morally inferior. This stigma has been shown to have many negative consequences.
But until...