Mother. Lifelong poverty fighter. Principal research assoc at Urban Institute focusing on cash, social networks, equi dev, DC region, 2Gen. All views mine.
The Austin Statesman published an Op-Ed I wrote on why attempts to preempt #GuaranteedIncome pilots going on in states like Texas are short-sighted. Direct cash can be a springboard to opportunity for families with low-income, especially their children.
Here's an informative article on the guaranteed income bans going on, and how they are contrary to the evidence on direct cash being an effective means to lift people out of poverty. I'm quoted. cnbc.com/2024/07/09/guarante…
I wrote this blog to respond to the ill-advised bans on guaranteed income programs going on in a number of states. Policymakers responsible for this are acting on their bias against people with low income, not evidence.
Guaranteed income programs are often more effective than existing government programs; they embody core American values, such as liberty and efficiency. This Urban Wire piece explores how banning guaranteed income programs undermines American values.
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State policymakers banning and seeking to ban guaranteed income experiments may be forgoing insights on the most popular, effective—and American—solution to poverty ever advanced in the US. Read my recent @urbaninstitute blog to learn more.
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.@MaryMBogle: "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 @DanielleBMcLean) urbn.is/3thsjO1
.@MaryMBogle: 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 @mslaurabliss) urbn.is/3BU07Vf
.@MaryMBogle: "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 @LorieKonish) urbn.is/33Rsbfv
.@MaryMBogle: "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 @allyschweitzer) urbn.is/3LXlD09
Every City Hall in the country can learn a lot about what real and equitable citizen engagement looks like from the @CitiesOfService#LoveYourBlock model.
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.
“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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.@MaryMBogle: "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 @allyschweitzer, @maustermuhle) urbn.is/2UD57fV