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The program gave money to "who were pregnant or had at least one child, lived at or below the federal poverty level and experienced hardship related to COVID-19

The program gave money to "who were pregnant or had at least one child, lived at or below the federal poverty level and experienced hardship related to COVID-19. Participants were randomly selected from about 50,000 applicants". There were probably a million people eligible to apply for the program. 5% of them did. So when considering how well the program would scale, remember that the current results come from those in the 95th or higher percentile of motivation to improve their life.

Supermancho 2y ago
> the current results come from those in the 95th or higher percentile of motivation to improve their life. That's a big assumption. eg I could have participated in hundreds of class action against the manufacturer of one of my medical devices. I don't participate in all of them, for practical reasons of time and notification. Then they fell into a selection based on other characteristics like likelihood of success (judgement or settlement), if there were shared legal costs, exclusionary criteria...like not participating in other cases or a limited number, etc. I missed out on millions of dollars, relative to my success case, by being unlucky. There were multiple practical factors involved in the selection, beyond "you could have participated". This oversimplification is not the basis for a conclusion, imo.