{"id":2750,"date":"2007-09-13T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/those_who_receive_the_cash_transfer_cant_believe_it_while_those_who_havent_taken_it_cant_believe_its_real.html"},"modified":"2007-09-13T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:23:43","slug":"those_who_recei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/those_who_recei.html","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Receive The Cash Transfer Can’t Believe It, While Those Who Haven’t Taken It Can’t Believe It’s Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the mayor’s plan to outbid poverty, participants seem very pleased<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For Wayne Logan, a single father of two, being selected for the city’s experimental cash-rewards program for the poor was like hitting the lottery.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy. I’m grateful,” he declared, sounding somewhat amazed at his good fortune.<\/p>\n

“To get paid to do things I’m doing anyway is a welcome feeling.”<\/p>\n

Logan, 49, was among the first enrollees in a daring $50 million pilot project launched by Mayor Bloomberg with private funds to pay poor families as much as $5,000 a year simply to do the right thing.<\/p>\n

A child getting a library card is worth $50.<\/p>\n

A student who passes a standardized math or English exam is eligible to get a $300 payoff for each.<\/p>\n

Complete two dental visits a year? That’s $100 in your pocket.<\/p>\n

Logan insisted that almost all the 28 activities prescribed by the city are already on his checklist.<\/p>\n

He was recertified for Medicaid (worth $40), gets an annual checkup ($200), and recently took his son to the dentist.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, only 3,000 of the 5,100 families selected for the program signed up by Sept. 1, leading officials to extend the deadline by a month.<\/p>\n

Half of the families will be in a control group that doesn’t receive benefits.<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs said some families in the six neighborhoods picked for the program “found it hard to believe it’s real” and didn’t enroll.<\/p>\n

But she said officials intend to track down the non-responders because “we want to see how incentives work in those hard-to-engage households and those who are the poorest of the poor.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the mayor’s plan to outbid poverty, participants seem very pleased: For Wayne Logan, a single father of two, being selected for the city’s experimental cash-rewards program for the poor was like hitting the lottery. “I’m happy. I’m grateful,” he declared, sounding somewhat amazed at his good fortune. “To get paid to do things I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","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=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}