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Speaker 1: Some may think an additional five hundred bucks a month

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Speaker 1: might be enough to pull people out of poverty, but

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Speaker 1: that's not what an eighteen month pilot program in Cambridge shows.

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Speaker 1: Gito Pradhan is President of the Cambridge Community Foundation.

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Speaker 2: From a real economic perspective, it's stabilized families, but when

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Speaker 2: we looked at data six months after the payment stopped,

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Speaker 2: that stability was gone. Families were back to square one.

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Speaker 1: What the Rise Up Cambridge cash assistance program, funded by

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Speaker 1: ARPA did show is that it relieves stress and anxiety

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Speaker 1: for single parent households living below the poverty line.

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Speaker 2: Has reverberating impacts on families and children.

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Speaker 1: She says, interventions to pull people up and keep them

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Speaker 1: out of poverty need to be more sustained, longer, and

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Speaker 1: larger in scale. In Cambridge. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's News

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