.Mary Bogle: "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, Martin Austermuhle) urbn.is/2UD57fV

Breath-taking athleticism. And from many angles . . . In slo-mo.

DC peeps who are vaxxed and prepared to have some great safe fun -- check this out!!!!

So here's a very important conversation on the road to more cash-based social policy.

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.

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.

.Mary Bogle: "There's no barrier on cash." (via Stephan Bisaha) urbn.is/3cd00Z0

Every City Hall in the country can learn a lot about what real and equitable citizen engagement looks like from the Cities of Service #LoveYourBlock model.

Live long and prosper, Twitterverse. Here’s hoping we really do achieve peace on earth (and throughout “the Federation” 😀) one day.

New research: Mary Bogle, Olivia Fiol, Elaine Maag, @eleanorble, Peter Tatian, Fay Walker, & team share what they’ve learned from DC’s THRIVE East of the River guaranteed income pilot. urbn.is/3HkG3fU

.Mary Bogle: "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

If you care about #guaranteedincome, check out the evaluation of THRIVE East of the River Urban Institute just released. Here's a CNBC article that does a good job summarizing: cnbc.com/2022/02/25/gua…

.Mary Bogle: "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 Lorie Konish) urbn.is/33Rsbfv

.Mary Bogle: 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 Laura Bliss) urbn.is/3BU07Vf

.Mary Bogle: "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 Danielle McLean) urbn.is/3thsjO1

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 Urban Institute blog to learn more. urban.org/urban-wire/ban…

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.

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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/gua…

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.