Douglas J Besharov

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Democrats used federal funding as a carrot. Now they get the stick. wapo.st/4jb9ZhT

A large scale detailed RCT study of an unconditional guaranteed income program - Bottom line: recipients of the $ worked less & spent the extra time in leisure. Not necessarily the findings proponents of guaranteed income would like, but kudos to these scholars for doing careful work and reporting the results straight. NB: this does not mean that some type of guaranteed income isn’t a good idea, it just highlights a trade-off (one that standard economic models imply, btw)

Touching: My husband was slowing down. He needed protecting. wapo.st/4faMYuj

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A giant lost for the Post, a great gain for Brookings!

Brookings Economic Studies is thrilled to welcome @goldsteinamy as a visiting fellow to the Center on Health Policy and the Center on Economic Security and Opportunity. Amy joins Brookings after a 36-year stint as Washington Post staff writer. brookings.edu/people/amy-gol…

Kissinger (RIP) deciding it was finally time to go says dire things about the later 2020s I'm afraid.

This is the perfect tweet. RIP Bob Barker.

Alas, not alone.

We in the educated class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves. nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opi…

It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President nytimes.com/2023/07/08/opi…

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Congrats to @bterrylong, @HGSE Dean (and Chair of MDRC's Board), for receiving @APPAM_DC's 2022 Rossi Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation!

Persuasive, except for the immunocompromised, of course. >> Why I won’t be masking my kids this school year washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

The loss seems greater because of what is happening in Ukraine.

Excess partisanship and the cost of big budget bills thehill.com/opinion/financ…

Take that Putin! Do you think that we could have a dance-off instead of a war? >> President Volodymyr Zelensky on Dancing With the Stars DWTS in Ukraine i... youtu.be/TlJywp7E3Gw via @YouTube