.: "One of the things we saw with THRIVE very clearly is that people made these really thoughtful, dynamic choices. But it involves trusting people to make good decisions & our safety net is designed with a lack of trust." (via )
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Mother. Lifelong poverty fighter. Principal research assoc at Urban Institute focusing on cash, social networks, equi dev, DC region, 2Gen. All views mine.
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.: Those living "in neighborhoods that are disinvested in are used to being treated badly by systems... I think their extraordinary reactions in this case say a lot about the barriers these folks usually encounter." (via )
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.: "Our safety net is very judgmental, but it does not show a lot of good judgment. If we designed a safety net...to help people in this country that was based on evidence, we would not have the systems the way they look now." (via )
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New research: , , , , , , & team share what they’ve learned from DC’s THRIVE East of the River guaranteed income pilot.
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If you care about #guaranteedincome, check out the evaluation of THRIVE East of the River just released. Here's a CNBC article that does a good job summarizing:
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.: "What THRIVE gives you is a window into the choices that people would make if they didn’t have all these safety net caps on them." (via )
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Live long and prosper, Twitterverse. Here’s hoping we really do achieve peace on earth (and throughout “the Federation” 😀) one day.
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A tweet recognizing all of the Star Trek fans who welcome and encourage other Star Trek fans who love Star Trek and believe fandom is for everyone. That’s it. That’s the tweet. I see and appreciate every one of you 
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Every City Hall in the country can learn a lot about what real and equitable citizen engagement looks like from the #LoveYourBlock model.
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Community engagement is key to an equitable recovery, writes @MaryMBogle. urbn.is/3lInrP2
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This is exactly why I offer a continuous feedback loop in almost every evaluation I conduct. Interventions and policies that seek to improve outcomes for people are not built overnight, but on lessons learned by people making course corrections based on real-time data.
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“At the frontier, progress is made by trial and error and error and error,” says venture capitalist @billjaneway. “Tolerance of error is essential. An exclusive pursuit of efficiency is the enemy of innovation. That’s often why big companies fail.” freak.ws/3oqZMmI
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Today is the last day in 2021 for non-filers to sign up for the #ChildTaxCredit!
The monthly #CTC payments provide 61M families with school supplies, childcare, and putting food on the table.
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The expanded #ChildTaxCredit is more than a check – it’s childcare, it’s school supplies, it’s food on the table. And for Stacy and her family, it's already making a huge difference in their lives.
Learn how the child tax credit can help YOUR family at ChildTaxCredit.gov.
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So here's a very important conversation on the road to more cash-based social policy.
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#LiveAtUrban, 9/13: Join @shenarashley, @MaryMBogle, @BenSoskis, @faycwalker, Sonia Torres Rodríguez, @swartell, @ToniaWellons, & others as they reflect on the implications & future of philanthropic efforts aimed at transferring cash directly to people. urbn.is/3CXqB8u
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DC peeps who are vaxxed and prepared to have some great safe fun -- check this out!!!!
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Dance Like a Mother fundraiser is on Friday, August 27th at @WundergartenDC. Hosted by @1stShiftJustice. Proceeds will support their work to help working mothers fight employment discrimination. @equality_lawyer will be performing.
More information here: firstshift.org/dance-like-a-m
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Breath-taking athleticism. And from many angles . . . In slo-mo.
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@Simone_Biles just casually bringing her Yurchenko double pike vault to podium training! 
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.: "Cash is equitable. Cash is a way to put something in the hands of folks & say, 'Now you make decisions about your lives, & you don’t have to have all these barriers.'" (via , )
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This whole receiving payments in installments or as a lump sum topic is complicated, but fascinating. Good insight form my colleague with timely reading material below.
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.@ElaineMaag: "We don’t know how people have budgeted their tax refunds... And so if it’s important to them that they receive this credit as one lump sum payment, we want to make sure people still have that option." (via @csreinicke) urbn.is/3yGIXYC
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Join us next Monday, July 19th at 12PM ET to hear about the impacts of cash aid during the pandemic — and lessons for future cash safety net policies.
Co-hosted by JFI, &
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Want a primer on historic and CURRENT policies driving racial discrimination in a place in the US? Look no farther. Similar stories can be told a 1000x - nay, 10’s of 1000s of times - over. In YOUR place and across this land. Shout out to of .
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.@gdmusgrove: "Segregation is first and foremost a product of public policy, and we always have to remember that." urbn.is/3j2JUG9
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Couldn't agree more. The term "noncompliant" is used errantly across human services systems. It is
stigmatizing and flat-out wrong because the problem almost always lies in the systems themselves being rife with barriers to access,
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I hate seeing the term “noncompliant” in medicine.
A patient schedules an appointment, takes time off work, gets on the bus, navigates traffic, waits in the waiting room, pays a copay, and confides their deepest concerns in us and then we call them noncompliant.
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From & Sonia Torres Rodríguez: 4 lessons from stakeholders on advancing cultural equity.
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Our safety net should help people jump free of poverty, but badly designed policies cause too many American families to get stuck in it. See my conversation with 's Anne Vor der Bruegge on ’s Greater DC blog.
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Just as America is getting back on its feet, this comes along to clock those who are most financially insecure upside the head. When will we learn that equitable treatment for done is good for ALL of us?
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This is the worst possible timing. If tenants are evicted before they can access rental assistance, then isn't it true that landlords are walking away from back rent owed, which could be just around the corner? thehill.com/regulation/cou
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Don't look at the misleading charts, but poor people spend 40% more time waiting around than rich people do. Our safety net bureaucracy is an easily fixable source of this: just give people money.
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A convo last night noted that, anecdotally, low-income people often take entire days for routine appointments that high-income folks usually schedule for a long lunch. I got curious about the income gap in time spent waiting for things, so I looked it up in the ATUS. 1/n
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Attention fellow data geeks! Here's a can't miss opportunity!
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Just a reminder that I'm hosting one of my virtual Core Principles of Data Visualization workshop towards the end of May. | eventbrite.com/e/core-princip
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.@BrettTheodos: "It’s hard to see any evidence that low- & moderate-income people are benefiting from this incentive... The Biden administration right now could institute reforms & make this program work a lot better for communities." (via @jimtankersley) urbn.is/3n8GIc3
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The tax system = green lights to advance wealth creation, mostly for white people. The US safety net system = red lights, designed primarily to block access for people of color, though white ppl are certainly hurt, too. Intentional? Sometimes yes. Systemic? Always.
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The tax code is stacked in favor of white people. That’s one reason why the median white family has eight times the net worth of the median Black family in America.
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Here's a great blog from my colleague Sonia Torres Rodríguez link.medium.com/Yv468wayFfb which features the #THRIVE #EOR community research team. Proud to be partnering with to bring forth this innovation.
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Here's a great job with a group that is serious about advancing equity.
bbardc.org/jobs/equitable
And is a great person to work with.
I see this disparity in my work all the time. and it's getting worse as folks with high income increasingly "place make" near metro cores. Regional efforts to defray transit $$ can help, but nothing makes up for the home and family TIME workers with low income lose on commutes.
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“Transportation expenses eat up 16% of income for residents with low incomes in the region, compared to 6% for high-income residents.” New report on the disproportionate cost burden on low-income drivers and transit users by @cmapillinois. @NextCityOrg
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Such a worthwhile discussion -- the foundations set during pregnancy and in the early years pay off exponentially in terms of quality of life and productivity over the course of a person's life.
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The #ACA reduced health coverage gaps for pregnant women, but there’s still a long way to go, as @_EMJohnston & @alanrweil discuss on the @Health_Affairs podcast. urbn.is/3tEPp0e
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“We don’t have a scarcity of money. We don’t even have a scarcity of ideas. … What this nation has is a scarcity of will and a scarcity of conscience, and we are the ones that must change that.” @RevDrBarber #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SaveTheDate #June21 federalnewsnetwork.com/government-new
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As NYC rents plunged, the number of apartments affordable to families with Section 8 housing vouchers has surged. But that doesn’t mean the city’s housing crisis is over. bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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More than 200 advocate groups urge and Congress to make permanent the tax provisions in the #AmericanRescuePlan that help the families with 69 million children and that help cut child poverty by more than half —> buff.ly/2Qo52ui
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"We have noticed a growing support and a shift in the demographics of who backs a basic income — more and more people are becoming aware of its value and possibilities."
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Yup -- our safety net is rife with systemically racist features. Cash cuts through all that. Now if we can just solve for the #cliffeffect.
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.@MaryMBogle on direct cash assistance: "For all kinds of reasons, it's one of the more equitable solutions we can come up with... It gives people a choice." (via @clbtea) urbn.is/32vkebD
So true and so sad. This compliance BS takes emphasis off of the real problem which is racial bias and the US #castesystem.
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"For Black and brown people, this is the terror of American policing. When we do not comply, we die like Daunte Wright did. When we do comply, we die like Adam Toledo did."
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Wow, here's Big Brother sniffing around at a whole new level. My Home Owner's Association might like to know about this . . . until I moved to a new townhome community in late 2019 I didn't fully realize how exciting the topic of dog poop can be . . .
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Did you know that Stephen and @Freakonomics co-author @StevenDLevitt wrote a column for the @nytimes suggesting we use DNA testing to identify/penalize dog owners who don’t scoop poop? “And, in fact, in a few places around the world, this has happened.” freak.ws/2QEn6QY
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