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On drug tests for SNAP: “Such changes - even when they exist only as policy proposals - reinforce the notion that the poor must be closely policed in the use of public funds, more so than other beneficiaries of tax dollars. We do not demand drug tests of homeowners taking a mortgage deduction”

Love this book @donmoyn @pamela_herd

Hey friends, if you have been enjoying my notes on #HerdMoynihan’s lovely book #AdministrativeBurden under those hashtags, it appears Prof @pamela_herd is #OnHere, too

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“A major lesson from the rollout of the ACA is that the success or failure of big policy changes depends on administrative burdens”

I had somehow forgotten about this shitfuckery

“Michigan proposed to limit #WorkRequirements to counties with low unemployment, exempting those with higher unemployment. As a result, res- idents in high-unemployment cities that fall in low unemployment counties-such as Detroit and Flint-would be subject to the new requirements”

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So much rage

#HerdMoynihan #administrativeBurden #obamacare #sabotge

“New HHS promotional materials fea- tured videos of people explaining how the ACA had harmed them.”

“People will be required to upload the necessary docs mentation to verify their [#WorkRequirement] activities. But 30 percent of low-income adults most likely to be on Medicaid report they never use a computer, 28 percent say they do not use the internet, and 41 percent do not use email”

The horrors of getting an #abortion under current [2013] Wisconsin law - Isthmus | Madison, Wisconsin

https://isthmus.com/opinion/opinion/the-horrors-of-getting-an-abortion-under-current-wisconsin-law/

A haunting read from a decade ago, when things were easier

HT #HerdMoynihan

Do I read this tonight or will it make me too mad to sleep?

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The #HerdMoynihan #AdministrativeBurden chapter on #Voting reviews an enormous amount of data and has these handy tables!

“Contemplating how burdens matters to the basic right of voting recalls William Faulkner's observation that "The past is never dead. It isn't even past." The history of burdens in the post-Reconstruction South holds striking parallels with the present. “

I know I am quoting too much and forking the threads annoyingly, but, SO GOOD

“the generally opaque nature of #AdministrativeBurden makes them valuable as a form of policymaking by other means that substitutes for or complements more overt policy change. …

“One of the most striking examples is the use of burdens, such as unnecessary regulations for abortion providers, to prevent women's access to legal abortion”

How much of healthcare do #HerdMoynihan explain?

.@jsussman thought you would enjoy this: on the intentional use of unbalanced quality metrics in welfare admin

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“The simple act of waiting communicates that the state believes that individuals' time is of little value.”

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“If behavioral economics provides a logic for why cognitive biases make small burdens a big deal, social psychology suggests that violating basic psychological needs of autonomy and respectful treatment also exacerbate burdens.”

“A simple definition of #AdministrativeBurden is that it is an individual’s experience of a policy’s implementation”

I find #HerdMoynihan’s articulation of “learning costs” particularly useful as an addition

“#Nudges become an attractive mode of action when one has decided to ignore more structural shoves that influence societal inequality”

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#HerdMoynihan note “ordeal mechanisms” as an antecedent to their concept of #AdministrativeBurden

Ping @sociology if either of them are #onHere

I had not realized the Treasury once released something entitled “Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews”

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