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Quilt Zaddy MPLS
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Quilter, UX Designer, community loudmouth, Sheridan Neighborhood Board Member, and Gardener. Not necessarily in that order
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An aviation.
January 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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An absolute rap god. He’s good people.
January 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Rock the Bop.
January 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Shit is getting wild in Utah and I am nervous for y’all.
January 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Volunteer with your neighborhood organization AND listen to All Too Well. The more we engage in our communities the less hopeless we can feel.
January 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Framing them is one option. I love seeing framed quilt panels. 😍
I promise your great grams wanted them used and seen.
January 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I am of the blunt and empathy overstimulation variety.
January 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot

Location: Minneapolis, MN
Participants: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 2 yrs
Design: RCT

EMPLOYMENT DID NOT DECEASE

Food and housing security, financial security and psychological wellness all significantly improved.

www.minneapolisfed.org/research/ins...
Our findings show that cash assistance stabilizes households’ economic lives (food security, financial security, and housing stability) and improves direct reports of well-being (subjective or psychological) with no evidence of a reduction in labor supply. This pattern of findings matches several other randomized GBI evaluations. Comparing across these studies suggests that the benefits of basic income in terms of stability and well-being are slightly larger for populations with lower baseline income and worse outcomes, and that these groups also tend to have null or slightly positive (but not statistically significant) labor supply effects. Our population is on the more disadvantaged end of this spectrum. Table 4 presents results for three measures of economic security: food security (panel A), housing stability (panel B), and financial security (panel C). We find immediate, large, and robust positive effects of basic income payments on food security. At baseline only about one-third of respondents in both groups are recorded as food secure, but after 6 months of GBI payments and in every wave thereafter, about half of the treatment group reports being food secure. The estimated average treatment effect parameter is between 15 and 20 percentage points across all specifications in all periods, and every estimate except one is statistically significantly different from zero after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing. One clear behavioral prediction from economic models is that an increase in unearned income should reduce labor supply. This is a direct consequence of valuing leisure time. Static and dynamic models differ on the magnitude of their prediction for short-run labor supply behavior but not in their sign. We do not find evidence that GBI payments caused recipients to reduce their labor supply. In fact, panel D of Figure 3 and Table 5 show that our labor supply index—which combines extensive and intensive margin measures—is higher among treated respondents than control respondents. These results are not generally distinguishable from zero and our specifications that use baseline employment information (models 2 and 3) find smaller results than unadjusted comparisons or ones adjusted only for demographic information.
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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There are no active chapters of the KKK in Alaska. Her family is so well known in their community he would have been cast out ages ago. Additionally, song lyrics are not always about the singers life.
January 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Whose dad was in the Klan?
January 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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All you had to do was some simple googling to learn this is a completely made up quote from some asshole on Twitter.
January 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM