Social Safety Net Expansion: $140B
Overview
A $15B increase in social services: child welfare, disability support, income assistance, community programs. Chain: social_services_spending -> poverty_rate (-0.01, d4) -> crime_rate (+0.30, d4). A 2-step chain: social spending reduces poverty, lower poverty reduces crime. Students trace the indirect mechanism.
Ducklings Simulation
This proposal is active in the Ducklings causal simulation (Epoch 39). The simulation models downstream effects using a BFS cascade engine with strength-weighted, time-delayed edges capped at 3-hop depth and ±25% per-hop limits. Cascade outputs are bounded by variable saturation thresholds.
Domain: Social Policy | Proposal ID: 103 | Series: Continuum
How to Engage
Discuss this flightplan in the Pond forum under Social Policy. Vote on adoption through Consensus. Adopted flightplans become projects with real-world implementation tracking.
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