Cash grants are incompatible with the deeply ingrained values and norms of the Protestant work ethic especially as practiced in the US. Until this changes, cash grants to the poor are DoA.
The article describes a grant system where recipients used the money to train up & start small business operations. The US also has small business loans in its own right.
Can I ask why you think they are DoA? We had a few via COVID relief. Republicans were for them. Democrats offered no objections.
Hilarious how so many 4 hours of actual office work a day non-hunters who have never grown a carrot, buy everything at Costco believe they are living the Protestant work ethic the stereotype invokes