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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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.
Opinion: Despite backlash, guaranteed income pilot programs are lifting up Texas families statesman.com/story/opinion/…
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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/guarante…
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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.
urban.org/urban-wire/banning…
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Mary Bogle retweeted
.@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
Mary Bogle retweeted
.@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
Mary Bogle retweeted
.@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
Mary Bogle retweeted
New research: @MaryMBogle, @livfiol, @ElaineMaag, @eleanorble, @PeterTatian, @faycwalker, & team share what they’ve learned from DC’s THRIVE East of the River guaranteed income pilot. urbn.is/3HkG3fU
If you care about #guaranteedincome, check out the evaluation of THRIVE East of the River @urbaninstitute just released. Here's a CNBC article that does a good job summarizing: cnbc.com/2022/02/25/guarante…
Mary Bogle retweeted
.@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
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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Every City Hall in the country can learn a lot about what real and equitable citizen engagement looks like from the @CitiesOfService #LoveYourBlock model.
Community engagement is key to an equitable recovery, writes @MaryMBogle. urbn.is/3lInrP2
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
Mary Bogle retweeted
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.
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.
So here's a very important conversation on the road to more cash-based social policy.
#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!!!!
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-…
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Breath-taking athleticism. And from many angles . . . In slo-mo.
👀 @Simone_Biles just casually bringing her Yurchenko double pike vault to podium training! 🐐#TokyoOlympics #SimoneBiles
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Mary Bogle retweeted
.@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