Sandy Hook: Does Money Really Help?
I admit, I was a little confused when people began sending money to Newtown, site of the 2012 horrific elementary school massacre. What good does money do? It can't bring the kids back. But then I started to read that it could pay for counseling and therapy and perhaps with burial expenses, so I thought, okay. Now people are arguing about it. Guess you have to expect that, any time humans -- and cold, hard cash -- come together. Over $10 million was raised, and let's be honest, it felt to many like the one thing you could do to try somehow to compensate these parents for their unspeakable loss. And most likely, it felt good. But now different groups are fighting over just how the money should be distributed, according to Peter Applebome in today's NYT. Taking a lot of the heat is the United Way, because quite a bit of the money went to that organization, Applebome writes, and survivors told him they've seen very little or none of it and are concerne...