Poverty is not a"lack of money".This is an oversimplification which is dangerous when it comes to macroeconomic poverty response programs.Poverty is deprivation.Deprivation does come from lack of access to individual consumer goods and services.but it doesn't ONLY come from that

Deprivation also comes from the carceral resources directed at specific communities. It comes in the form of a lack of collective goods within specific communities and the pollution dumped in certain communities. For an individual or family, money can alleviate this.

it can bring individuals out of those targeted communities and provide access to the collective goods of the privileged. It can provide access to consumer goods in the privileged community.But at the macroeconomic level, money sent to everyone can't take the target off their back

goods&services will always be priced to keep communities in their assigned relative position.Even access to adequate individual goods&services can be disrupted by shifts in pricing strategies in deprived communities.Even if prices don't completely shift, the above problems remain

None of this is an argument against sending people checks, especially since many households primarily problem are financial right now. My point is that tackling poverty is a more comprehensive, systemic, structural and complex process than simply "sending people checks".