By: Juliana Kaplan See original post here. KEY POINTS: When the pandemic hit, older people in Charleston, West Virginia, suddenly found themselves with a lot
By: Hans Nichols The White House is engaging with Senate Democrats about making one last push for an enhanced child tax credit this year —
By: JULIA FELTON Original post can be found here. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey is scrapping plans to use American Rescue Plan funding for a guaranteed
By James Battaglia, Jack Watson Original article: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/rochester-city-council-approves-guaranteed-basic-income-pilot-program/ ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — In its meeting Tuesday night, Rochester City Council unanimously approved a measure to create a
By Suzan K. DelBene Original article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/monthly-child-tax-credit-payments-are-getting-parents-get-back-to-work-opinion/ar-AAROj3w In early 2020, Wendy and her family moved to the Pacific Northwest for her husband’s new job. She
By Jesse Bedayn Original article: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2448685525609/500-a-month-without-strings-bay-area-s-latest-guaranteed-income-program?_f=app_share&s=a99&share_destination_id=MTUzNTUzMjU4LTE2MzgzMDcyOTEyNzU=&pd=0AOIDSZ0&hl=en_US South San Francisco this month sent out the first $500 monthly checks to around 150 low-income families to spend however
By Madeline Shannon Original article: https://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/article255486671.html#twt-evening-mer After a contentious public hearing over how to use money allotted by the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the
By Logan Rockefeller Harris Researchers from the Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University have been measuring monthly poverty rates throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They
The benefits were handed out. But they don’t seem to be translating politically. In some cases, voters don’t even credit Biden for them. By Sam Stein
By Deborah Bayliss Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins’s plan for a pilot Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) program is finally seeing some movement. Not much had been said
by Elaine Maag As Congress debates whether to extend the major, but temporary, changes to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) it adopted earlier this year,
Census surveys show that low income families are using the child tax credits to pay off debt. This is why it should be made permanent.
The American Rescue Plan lifted millions out of poverty and charted a new course for economic assistance by emphasizing direct cash relief. Is UBI next?
The American Rescue Plan has been hailed as a historic effort that will cut poverty by a third and child poverty by half. Congress can keep it going.
