Michele Abbott

[AkaSci 📡 @akaschs]

Where are the “Cosmic Cliffs”? The Cosmic Cliffs, whose dazzling image was released by the JWST team yesterday, are located in the open star cluster NGC 3324, in the NE corner of the Carina Nebula, ~7,600 light years away.
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[Toni Preckwinkle @ToniPreckwinkle]

Proud to announce our $42 million guaranteed income pilot program today. It’s the largest investment in the country and Cook County is the first to commit to a permanent long term program.

[Center on Poverty & Social Policy (CPSP) @CpspPoverty]

One-time tax credits paid out during tax filing season can be an important temporary boost for families, but research shows that regular monthly payments are better for reducing poverty year round.

Learn more: https://t.co/igVZvXebP7

[Kathryn Anne Edwards @keds_economist]

I've gotten a lot of response to my op-ed about marriage, much of it negative. In this thread I'll group the responses together into themes. But let me say here, I am grateful for the discussion it generated.

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[Keegs 🧮🏗️ @LittleKeegs0]

Important graph to keep in mind now that the full CTC expansion seems unlikely to stick: full refundability does 5 times more to combat poverty than the benefit increase by itself, for around a third of the cost.
https://t.co/jCiGnHpejm

[Michele Abbott @MicheleMAbbott]

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[Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers]

You can hook babies who got a UBI up to an Electroencephalogram, and the babies whose family got a $333/month UBI have a measurably different profile than the ones who got $20/month.

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

The new paper reports the impact of the monthly cash support on infant brain activity after one year of the intervention. Infants of mothers in the high-cash gift group had more high-frequency (fast) brain activity compared with infants of mothers in the low-cash gift group.

[Dr. Kimberly Noble @KimberlyGNoble]

NEW FINDING: Cash support for low-income families changes their infants' brain activity. The first study from our #BabysFirstYears randomized control trial of poverty reduction is out, in @PNASnews. https://t.co/EOW7Yh2NBJ
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[Michele Abbott @MicheleMAbbott]

@jtrpgh That was hard!

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[Michele Abbott @MicheleMAbbott]

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[State Rep. Dan Frankel @RepDanFrankel]

Allegheny County has created an online tool so that members of the public can report COVID-19 home test results and provide a more complete picture to public health officials. If you have a positive test result, report it as soon as possible here: https://t.co/IZ0y4BZL3u

[Josh Boak @joshboak]

This thread cuts through the politics of the child tax credit to address a simple q: Is this good policy?

[Data for Progress @DataProgress]

Thread: We provide recipients of the expanded Child Tax Credit an opportunity in our surveys with @ExpandCTC to say what they are spending it on.

Their responses are a heartfelt reminder of all the good this program does for 35 million families. Here are a few.

[Dave Guarino @allafarce]

Yesterday the President issued an executive order on "Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery"

If you follow me, you probably know I yell into the ether a lot about this stuff (especially food stamps)

Let's read the details:

https://t.co/KYwCkDlfYB

[Kathryn Anne Edwards @keds_economist]

I've heard politicians say "I've worked a minimum wage job" and it feels coded for "I understand low-wage work" or "I get what poverty is like."

But these people, often old, are recalling the minimum wage of their youth. It's called the same thing, but its not the same wage.
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[delaniac 🌹🌱 @ChadNotChud]

democrats draw a straight line challenge (impossible)

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

Big results from the 10-year follow-up to Banerjee-Duflo-Sharma's ultrapoor asset transfer experiment in West Bengal.

2 cows + 30 weeks of a subsistence stipend = 20% higher consumption a DECADE later.

https://t.co/nrSmPm5G9J

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

R users: I don't understand why people spend $200 on Stata while it's so easy and free to use R

Me trying to get into R:
https://t.co/1ssjhEO1ky