When I say dignified, you say delivery! Dignified…👂🏾👂🏾

11/ From PPP/EIP/CTC to #PSLF, the gov’t has a HARD time paying people money they’re owed. At Aspen Institute Financial Security Program we’ve outlined key practices for G2P cash payments, including 1) predictable payments, &; 2) dignified delivery. Rachel Black Riani Carr aspeninstitute.org/publications/s…

Okay y'all it's story time (brought to you by our flawed systems and Tim Shaw)!! 🧵

The completely bananas experience of my colleague navigating #PSLF is also completely typical of gov't payment systems that are VERY BAD at actually paying people. Riani Carr and propose a different approach in our paper with @SpringboardToOp. 👇

.Community Partnership Group (CPG): We believe that achieving transformational, anti-racist policy change is only possible when impacted people occupy positions of leadership & share systemic power. Therefore, recipients must have the power to improve policies and programs that claim to reduce poverty

These Community Partnership Group (CPG) leaders are exactly the folks that should be guiding change. Not only in what needs to be done but how it’s gonna get done. We love to see it! 👏🏾

“The books we were supposed to read in 2020, your kids cannot read in 2022.” Robert Samuels speaking powerfully about the backlash to the George Floyd racial justice movement at the #ProsperitySummit2022

Today is Black women's equal pay day. To say that it takes 9.5 months more for a Black woman to make what a white man made in 2021 shows at it's core how we value some people and not others. - Taifa Smith Butler #ProsperitySummit2022

I wish I could type faster but all you need to know is Alicia Garza speaking the truth and my new mission statement is to “investigate to excavate” - to recreate our systems, not just adapt them 😮‍💨 #ProsperitySummit2022

Oop, there it is! 😗

The #ProsperitySummit2022 had to have done something right because on this day after despite being VERY exhausted, somehow I’m also super duper inspired, energized and refreshed 🤓

I don’t care if she slept with Santa THEE Claus… her sexual decisions do not merit harm

While this is promising news, Congress should permanently remove the SNAP work requirement for students. At the very least, lawmakers should make the temporary COVID-19 SNAP student changes permanent. clasp.org/blog/congress-…

"Anti-work activists [...] advocate the virtues of a universal basic income, which does away with the need to work at all." Are you as tired as we are of hearing this "people won't work if you give them an income floor" argument? See our thread below 🧵washingtonpost.com/business/ameri…

After the uprisings Jen Parker & I wanted to read & hear from folks organizing & thinking about how we change our current condition. It didn't exist so we made our own. We hope you read it. Share it. Sign up to get it. It's free. Hammer & Hope is live today.

A product of many interviews, surveys and rigorous data analysis, the new Aspen Institute Financial Security Program report outlines 8 objectives most promising in the path forward for reaching #FinancialSecurity for all. Check it out here: bit.ly/AspenFSPwealth 🤩

You can read more about our phenomenal CAG members here: aspeninstitute.org/programs/finan… 🤩