The founder of Twitter gave $1 million to the new guaranteed basic income program to help expand its reach in his hometown of St. Louis.
Fairfax County will be piloting a guaranteed income program for residents in select ZIP codes, offering $750 per month to 180 families for 15 months starting in 2024.
A surge of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan has helped cities develop pilot guaranteed income programs. Will they last?
By: JANET SHAMLIAN See original post here. Adriana Flores, a single mother of two boys, watches every dollar, and even though she works full-time as
By: Natalie Foster In his 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here? Martin Luther King Jr. issued a visionary call often written out of our remembrances
By: Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks When the pandemic hit in 2020, Debbie Wilkerson decided to retire early from her job at Jack-in-the-Box. But it wasn’t really by
By: An-Li Herring See original post here. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration cited unspecified legal concerns when it announced in April that it had killed a plan
By: Paul Albani-Burgio. See original post here. A divided Palm Springs City Council voted Thursday to provide $500,000 more for a guaranteed basic income program that
Elizabeth Softky couldn’t work during cancer treatments and was evicted from her home. A guaranteed-income program helped her get permanent housing & paired her with
The program gave 110 random residents $400 a month for one year. The results are impressive as measured by reduction in stress. By: Steve Lenox
What possibilities could open up for low-income families if financial survival weren’t always top of mind? What dreams would these mothers and families be able
Participants in the proposed program would receive monthly payments for up to three years equal to the cost of rent for a 2-bedroom apartment unit
By Zachary Green Original article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-mississippi-a-long-running-guaranteed-income-program-is-helping-black-mothers In the U.S. 30% of families headed by Black mothers live below the poverty line. But one initiative in
At its core, a guaranteed income is about more than giving people money: it’s about resetting the terms of economic and political power. By Kendra Bozarth,
By WHAM Original article: https://13wham.com/news/local/lovely-warrens-last-act-guaranteed-basic-income Rochester, N.Y. — As her final act in office, Mayor Lovely Warren submitted legislation to Rochester City Council to create a
By Jason Lalljee Original article: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ubi-helps-woman-went-from-homeless-guaranteed-income-funding-2021-11 Christine, a woman from Compton, California, gets $1,800 every three months through a basic income program. The guaranteed income
By Lorie Konish Original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/21/former-stockton-mayor-michael-tubbs-on-why-he-wants-to-end-poverty.html Michael Tubbs had the odds stacked against him while growing up in Stockton, California, as the son of a
By Jim Kiertzner Original article: https://www.fox17online.com/news/could-a-guaranteed-basic-income-program-be-coming-to-detroit (WXYZ) — Two of the newly elected Detroit City Council members have floated the idea of a guaranteed basic income
By Thomas Wheatley Original article: https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2021/11/10/atlanta-experiment-guaranteed-income-program How could a monthly $800 check change your life? Atlanta may soon find out as it tests two guaranteed income pilot
Los Angeles and Chicago are rolling out guaranteed basic income programs that will provide direct cash assistance to thousands of struggling families. By Alicia Victoria Lozano and Safia
By Greg Lee Original article: https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-guaranteed-income-two-families-share-their-experiences OAKLAND, Calif. – In June, the city of Oakland launched one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the nation. The premise is
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 Amber Cromwell and Heather Brown We’ve all heard the argument that “poverty is a choice.” The reality is that’s true — but not for
By: Chad Swiatecki Joining the ranks of a handful of other cities interested in adopting some form of ongoing assistance for low-income residents, Austin has
In an attempt to put low-income workers on more solid financial footing, New Mexico lawmakers in recent years have approved a minimum wage increase and
Politicians recognize that we must fundamentally shift the idea that people who face financial insecurity have somehow failed. This is where UBI comes in. The
