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by grandmczeb 2586 days ago
> Do they really think that an app that sends reminders is going to help failure to appear rates?

Text reminders empirically reduce failure to appear by a huge amount[1]. Maybe you don’t understand the problem as well as you think?

[1] https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/text-message-rem...