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LA County’s basic income program now giving some foster youth $1,000 per month
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — L.A. County’s guaranteed income program, Breathe, is giving 1,000 residents $1,000 a month for three years.
How a Local Currency is Transforming Brazil’s Shopping Districts
I believe local currencies, like the system in Marica, can be a powerful business development model for towns and villages in the UK, especially those losing out to online sales or nearby large cities.
Try this in a small town. Try it in every town.
A new documentary featuring a guaranteed basic income experiment in Cambridge shows the good that comes from giving low-income families a little extra help each month.
Is giving people cash working? What six months of Denver’s Basic Income Project tell us
Six months ago, the Denver Basic Income Project (DBIP) started giving cash regularly to people experiencing homelessness, no strings attached.
What $500 a Month Means to Zinida Moore
In an experimental program, 5,000 Chicagoans received monthly cash payments from the city for a year, no strings attached. Here’s how the money changed one woman’s life — and how it didn’t.
Cambridge tries giving thousands of low-income residents money, no strings attached
Income from the Cambridge RISE pilot program helped free up Porchia Willis to take classes at the Massachusetts School of Barbering
We cut child poverty to historic lows, then let it rebound faster than ever before
The expanded child tax credit was a well-tested solution to child poverty. Bring it back.
Foster care leaver says basic income gives independence
A teenager who was given £1,600 a month as part of a government pilot scheme said it helped her rent a flat.
Basic income saved lives, say supporters, who rallied in Denver for extension of cash assistance
Advocates for the Denver Basic Income Project rallied at the Colorado Capitol on Friday to urge local leaders to support additional funding for the program
Scottish Child Payment Impact ‘Biggest Since Fall of Berlin Wall’
The Scottish Child Payment has seen the biggest reduction in inequality caused by a single policy change since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, an Oxford professor has said.
Denver Basic Income Project and Mark Donovan Gaining More Confidence One Year In
Denver Basic Income project leader Mark Donovan sees plenty of proof that his idea of giving out cash works to improve the lives of the homeless.
Universal basic income proves to be an effective method of development aid
Simply transferring money to people living in poverty works.
A basic income pilot program aimed at supporting mothers and babies is showing significant success in Delaware
The program is now three quarters of the way done and officials say its yielding a 324% return on investment.
Temporary Basic Income, a novel approach to coping with crisis and reducing gender disparities in Nepal
Kalpana is one of the 3,500 economically poor and vulnerable women who received cash as a temporary basic income.
Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits
Researchers find homeless people more likely to spend lump sum on housing and food and not ‘temptation goods’ such as alcohol
Guaranteed income program helps a single mother
This is one of four guaranteed basic income initiatives being tested by Santa Clara County, most of which are in the planning phase.
Georgia basic income pilot seems to be working
Georgia pilot gives 650 predominantly Black women $850 a month for two years, no strings attached – and it seems to be working
Denver’s universal basic income project reports early success
A report from the Denver Income Project found giving people experiencing homelessness free money is a meaningful way to improve their lives.
More cities are offering no-strings-attached cash to residents. Here’s what Philly can learn.
Philly will join the ranks of cities such as Durham, N.C., using guaranteed basic income as a tool to address systemic racism.
She ditched her day job to pursue her art with a basic income grant from Ireland
Elinor O’Donovan was among 2,000 artists chosen to receive crucial funding to support their creative endeavors.
‘Life-changing impacts’: can a guaranteed income program work?
It’s Basic, a new documentary premiering at the Tribeca film festival, looks at the US program that gave in-need participants $500 a month
Are guaranteed-income programs in Illinois working?
Thousands of Chicago and Cook County residents got $500 a month the past year from programs that are aiming to give people a little financial cushion.
When Jailyn Brown was selected to join a pilot program that gives cash to people struggling to make ends meet, the 23-year-old could hardly get enough hours at the retail store in Chicago where she worked to cover her expenses.
NYC Guaranteed Income Program Goes From Pilot to Permanent
By: Sarah Holder See original post here. A monthly cash payment program for new mothers in New York is
Guaranteed basic income program helps single mother make ends meet
By: JANET SHAMLIAN See original post here. Adriana Flores, a single mother of two boys, watches every dollar, and
Cambridge’s successful COVID experiment at giving poor families $500 month will continue, and grow from 130 to to 2,000 people
By Janelle Nanos See original post here. For years, Mabell Acevedo struggled each month to make ends meet. As
One Way to Help Prevent Child Abuse? Give Parents Cash.
By: LINDSEY ROSE BULLINGER See original post here. In 2021, when many American families were suffering from the financial fallout
29 mayors are granting residents hundreds of dollars in monthly cash. Recipients are less stressed and securing better-paying jobs.
By: Alexa Spencer See original post here. Imagine being a mother of teenage sons who beg you to play sports,
In Stockton, basic income helped fight poverty and COVID
When Stockton, California, resident Gregory Gauthier had to take time off from his job at auto dismantler Pick-n-Pull to
Durham’s Mayor Pro Tem Wants to Keep the City’s Successful Guaranteed Basic Income Program Going
By: Thomasi McDonald See original post here. Last February 2, the day before his 35th birthday, Torry Cooper had
Cash-assistance programs are spreading in New York. The jury’s out on what’s a winning formula.
By: Rebecca Redelmeier Eudora Tucker long dreamed of owning her own fashion business, but ordinary expenses always stood in
‘Equity is about money’: St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter on the city’s guaranteed basic income experiments
By: Kyle Stokes See original post here. Since November 2020, the city of St. Paul has launched four separate
With a guaranteed basic income, you can buy precious time with your family, say California parents
By: JEANNE KUANG See original post here. Before the pandemic, Claudia Gutierrez worked day shifts in one fast food