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** How to Create Positive Policy Feedback Loops
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In response to COVID and its economic fallout, policymakers took extraordinary measures, including emergency rental assistance, an expanded child tax credit, and a pause on student loan payments.

Many supporters of these pandemic interventions believed that their undeniable benefits would naturally lead to extensions or adoption of similar policies in the future—positive feedback loops in action.

That hasn’t quite been the case. And the expiration of these policies offers key lessons about how to nurture feedback loops going forward, Jamila Michener explains in a new report.

In Policy Feedback in the Pandemic: Lessons from Three Key Policies ([link removed]) , Michener examines how policy design choices and existing political constraints create and limit the possibilities for policy feedback.

“The observations offered here suggest policy feedback pathways that build mass support and political wherewithal for key policies by shifting social constructions, building power, and catalyzing action among social groups that are particularly vulnerable . . . ” Michener writes.

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