{"id":2426,"date":"2007-06-19T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/teach_a_man_to_fish_and_hell_earn_30_in_a_conditional_cash_transfer.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:39:15","slug":"teach_a_man_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/teach_a_man_to.html","title":{"rendered":"Teach A Man To Fish And He’ll Earn $30 In A Conditional Cash Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plan to pay off poverty<\/a> is moving forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Poor kids and their parents will pocket cash rewards — from $25 for good school attendance to $200 for visiting the doctor to $3,000 for passing five Regents exams — under an innovative anti-poverty program unveiled by city officials yesterday.<\/p>\n

The “conditional cash transfer” program, modeled on plans in places like Mexico and Brazil, is privately funded but administered by the city.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

About 14,000 participants will take part in the two-year $53 million pilot program beginning this fall.<\/p>\n

As many as 5,100 families of three living below the poverty line in six low-earning neighborhoods, with at least one kid in fourth, seventh or ninth grade in a public school, would participate in the educational part of the program.<\/p>\n

Half of the families (the rest will serve as a control group to measure results) will get paid as much as $5,000 a year for meeting various clean-living goals.<\/p>\n

Among those families, teenagers will get paid directly $50 for taking the PSAT (a warm-up for the SAT, the most widely used college entrance exam), $300 for getting 11 high school credits a year and $50 for getting a library card — and a whopping $600 for every Regents exam passed, up to a maximum of five.<\/p>\n

That means some teens could be directly paid as much as $3,000 by the city. Five Regents are needed to graduate high school.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Recipients, being selected this summer before the program begins in the fall, can have the money deposited directly into their bank accounts.<\/p>\n

Also, 4,100 adults who get Section 8 federal housing vouchers — with half serving as the control group — will get $150 monthly for working 30 hours a week, and $600 for every block of 140 hours in job training.<\/p>\n

And about 18,000 fourth- and seventh-graders from 80 pre-selected schools will get paid between $5 and $10 a test for 10 exams overall throughout the year that they finish. There are incentive bonuses thrown in for perfect scores.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plan to pay off poverty is moving forward: Poor kids and their parents will pocket cash rewards — from $25 for good school attendance to $200 for visiting the doctor to $3,000 for passing five Regents exams — under an innovative anti-poverty program unveiled by city officials yesterday. The “conditional cash transfer” program, modeled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}