PILOTS & EXPERIMENTS

Applications end this Friday for Chicago Resilient Communities guaranteed basic income program
Original post can be seen here. Time is running out to apply for the Chicago Resilient Communities guaranteed basic

$1,000 a Month for Farmworkers? Proposed Basic Income Payments Aim to Help Amid Drought
By: MELISSA MONTALVO. See original post here. A Democratic lawmaker from the central San Joaquin Valley wants to put

Austin Approves First Guaranteed Basic Income Program in Texas
See original post here. Austin has become the first Texas city to approve a pilot program that will provide

New Orleans launches pilot guaranteed basic income program: $350 monthly for young people
By: BEN MYERS See original post here. Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has launched a new, privately funded program to provide monthly

Applications are now open for a new 2-year guaranteed basic income program in Atlanta for Black women affected by COVID-19
By: Jess Mador Original post can be found here. Applications are now open for the Old Fourth Ward’s new

Pittsburgh scraps plans for guaranteed basic income program
By: JULIA FELTON Original post can be found here. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey is scrapping plans to use American

Cambridge to be first city in the US to provide guaranteed income to every family living in poverty
See original post here. During the State of the City Address on Wednesday, April 27, Mayor Siddiqui announced that

90,000 Chicagoans Applied for Chicago’s Guaranteed Basic Income Program in 24 Hours
By: Heather Cherone. Original post can be seen here. More than 90,000 Chicagoans applied to be part of the

Families could get $1,000 a month as part of Austin’s first guaranteed income program
By: Audrey McGlinchy See original post here. Government aid programs often come with a laundry list of do-nots. For example,

Chicago guaranteed basic income program will begin accepting applications on April 25
By: ALICE YIN See original post here. Chicago residents can start applying for the city’s $500-per-month basic income pilot program

Opinion: 3 possible reasons universal basic income programs haven’t been implemented — despite the success of pilots
By: CHRIS TAYLOR See original post here. Universal basic income – a tax-free, unconditional sum of money regularly given

15,000 students graduating high school may get basic income in California
By: Jana Kadah. See original post here. In an effort to disrupt the cycle of homelessness in California, another population

Opinion: A Basic Income Guarantee should support artists—and artists should support a UBI
By: Jennifer Mills See original post here. The Australian Greens announced last week the addition of a Liveable Income

Queer Works director says he’s received threatening calls after Palm Springs transgender basic income pilot vote
By: Paul Albani-Burgio See original post here. The executive director of a social justice group has joined the Palm Springs mayor

Artists to get €325 a week in Ireland for three years under newly approved basic income plan
By: Jack Horgan-Jones A total of 2,000 artists will be given a basic income of €325 per week under

A just transition: Basic Income and Prince Edward Island
P.E.I. livable income advocate says private members bill creates ‘new level of importance’ as it takes basic income talks

Catalonia will be home to ‘one of world’s most ambitious’ universal basic income pilot plans
By: Cristina Tomàs White. | Original post can be see here. Catalonia is set to become home to a

New basic income pilot will focus on immigrant survivors of gender-based violence
My New Red Shoes (MNRS) is proud to announce Project Empower, a new basic income pilot that will provide direct

109 Formerly Incarcerated Inmates in Durham, NC, Now Getting $600 a Monthly Basic Income
By: PATRICK THOMAS. Original Post here. _______________________________________ Highlights: Guaranteed income program provides former inmates with supplemental income 109 formerly

Public consultation on Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme received 1,269 largely positive responses from artists, creative workers and the public
Original Post: https://www.hotpress.com/music/public-consultation-on-basic-income-for-the-arts-pilot-scheme-received-1269-largely-positive-responses-from-artists-creative-workers-and-the-public-22896030 Following the launch of the online public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme earlier

Universal basic income for region in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced
Original press release can be found at: https://basicincome.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/220302_Pressrelease_EightBasicIncomeDRC-1.pdf Eight’s basic income project, in collaboration with IPIS, the Belgian Development

Basic Income For Transition-age Foster Youth In New York
By: Eli Dvorkin and Mo Russell Leed Original Post: https://nycfuture.org/research/basic-income-for-transition-age-foster-youth The past four years, more than 20 cities and

5,000 Low-Income Chicago Families To Get $500 A Month For One Year
Chicagoans can apply to the universal basic income program in April. It was one of four anti-poverty initiatives Mayor

Gary, Indiana hopes to continue guaranteed basic income program
The Gary City Council will vote on an ordinance that would extend the guaranteed income program. Will the program

Welsh basic income pilot for care leavers ‘should be copied in Scotland’, charities say
The Scottish Government has shown an “openness and interest” in bringing forward a basic income pilot for people leaving

Basic income for young people leaving care to be piloted in Wales
Young people leaving care to be offered £1600 a month for two years from the month after their 18th

Ann Arbor asks residents how to spend $24 million in federal funding. One option is basic income.
The Ann Arbor City Council is asking residents for input on how to spend $24.1 million of federal funding from the

1,000 Phoenix Families Have Begun Receiving $1,000 a Month
Phoenix City Hall. Each family selected is expected to receive $12,000 over the next 12 months. By: ELIAS WEISS.

This is the company that guaranteed-income pilot programs use to get people cash
Steady, the tech platform cofounded by Shaquille O’Neal, has a community of 4 million members made up of contractors

Philadelphia to Provide $500 a month in basic income for one year to 60 residents
A guaranteed income program will pair money with important resources for a few dozen Philadelphians. By Devan McGuinness Original Post

What ever happened to Chicago’s universal basic income pilot program?
Three months after the City Council OK’d what’s touted as the largest such program in the United States —

Durham Guaranteed Basic Income to select 129 participants from pool of formerly incarcerated people
In less than two weeks, a new program, known as Excel, will start giving $500 a month to formerly