It blows my mind that people actually believe that they should just be given money for being alive.
Universal Basic Income
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What should blow your mind is having the ability and capabilities to preserve life but you don’t cause you rather get some paper with old dead white guys faces instead… imagine having a shitload of food able to feed an entire room and decide to throw most of it away instead of feeding everybody cause you aren’t receiving any type of materialistic gain from it…. To be human is to want to preserve life to be inhuman is to watch people suffer and die and you feel no type of sympathy
That's not it all. I just don't want to be feeding a room full of people who are just sitting around waiting for me to feed them everyday. As a human I recognize that self preservation is our number one instinct.
My job is to ensure the continuation of my lineage by putting them in the best position possible. Not to feed an entire room. Especially when we know that most broke people won't do the same. Cats in the hood walk by bums at the gas station and at mcds daily and don't do a damn thing. Most people are not altruistic.
Compton Fights Inequality With Universal Basic Income
Eight hundred low income households are receiving monthly payments through the Compton Pledge guaranteed income program.
Guaranteed income program launched in Georgia to give $850 per month to more than 600 Black women
The program was announced by the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity fund.
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Guaranteed income program launched in Georgia to give $850 per month to more than 600 Black women
The program was announced by the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity fund
Author: Jonathan Raymond (11Alive)
Published: 8:11 AM EST December 9, 2021
Updated: 7:10 AM EST December 11, 2021
ATLANTA — A new guaranteed income program in Georgia will provide more than 600 Black women across the state with $850 per month for at least two years, a community-based organization administering the program announced this week.
The program, called In Her Hands, will distribute out of a total fund of more than $13 million, the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund (GRO Fund) said.
It will initially target 200 women in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, where City Council representative Amir Farokhi has been working to establish a pilot basic income program.
On Twitter, both Farokhi and the GRO Fund highlighted how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a native of the Old Fourth Ward, had once called for a guaranteed income.
"This initiative, designed with resident input, will transform lives & help us understand the personal & policy benefits of income stability for our most vulnerable," Farokhi wrote. "We'll look at mental health outcomes and employment and career choices, among others."
In Her Hands initiative will not only provide greater economic stability for program participants but will generate much needed learnings on policies to advance an economy of shared prosperity," Wollensack added.
The monthly income will be no-strings attached, to allow "individuals and families to invest in what they need - from providing for basic needs, to keeping a roof over their heads, to paying for medical care, to investing in their family and future - and maintain agency over their lives while doing so."
There is no application process for the program - identified candidates are being invited to participate.
Funds for the program appear to come from a mix of private donors and sponsors as well as local and federal funds.
GiveDirectly, a donation service, is continuing to accept contributions to the fund. As of Thursday morning, it showed nearly $10 million had been raised - enough so far to fund 429 incomes, with another 221 still in need of full funding.
If the government gave everyone a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a come up for people who arent hard pressed for it. I would invest money. Imagine $500 a month and you just put that in your retirement account for however long the program lasts!!!! $6000 a year into your 401k on top of what you’re already putting in, and if you have a company match.
You cats in Georgia better go get yourself a Black Woman ASAP!!!
They about to hookup the Sista’s.
Guaranteed income experiment for Black women aims to tackle racial wealth gap
Most participants will receive $850 a month for two years.
ByKiara Alfonseca
January 12, 2022, 6:04 AM ET
abcnews.go.com
When Michelle Lockhart was a teenager in Atlanta, she had to work two jobs -- as a camp counselor and fast-food worker -- to take care of her family.
She said her mother became disabled at that time due to a brain tumor, but it took months of cutting through red tape to qualify for desperately needed federal assistance.
If they had gotten more help then, "I could have focused on going to college and doing what people my age were doing: going to prom and enjoying their teen years," Lockhart, now 41, told ABC News.
In the early months of this year, 650 Black women across Georgia -- a demographic hit particularly hard by poverty -- will get some of that help. Payments of $850 per month will roll out over the next two years in one of the biggest guaranteed income experiments in the country. Some participants in the $13 million initiative may receive lump sum payments totaling the same amount they would have received over two years. For now, the process of inviting and selecting participants is ongoing.
The program will run alongside Atlanta's own basic income program which plans to serve about 300 residents that live below 200% of the federal poverty line. The initiative is currently working on making its first round of payments to the starting cohort of 25 participants, according to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' office.
Guaranteed income programs like these have seen a resurgence in recent years amid attempts to address racial and economic equality and reduce poverty. The scope can be either targeted or universal. They have had successes, but some critics say these initiatives have to be multifaceted to work and address the nuances of poverty. Others claim it will stop people from working (though the claim has been debunked) or be too expensive to maintain.
As a community advocate and member of the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force, Lockhart said many of her neighbors continue to experience similar hardships, despite working day and night in an effort to escape poverty.
"Everybody's on this hamster wheel," Lockhart said. "They're working two or three jobs … they're working low wage jobs, but they're still in poverty."
Burden on communities of color
Black residents in Atlanta are more four times as likely to be living under the federal poverty line than their white neighbors, with 46% of Black households earning below $25,000 a year, according to recent research by the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force.
Some 38% of Black women and 26% of Black men in the city are living in poverty, compared to 8% of white women and 5% of white men in the same city, the task force reports.
"We're working, we're tired, we're stressed," Lockhart said. "With an extra $850 a month, people will be able to enjoy the sunlight and will be able to spend more time with their babies."
Hope Wollensack, the executive director of the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund, said the program is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is needed to address inequality.
"It'll take a multifaceted approach -- and probably many different policies -- to even begin to address the racial wealth gap," she said. "But we do know that stabilizing one's income can be a powerful tool not only to improve one's material circumstances in the short term and to improve quality of life and opportunities but also to enable individuals across the board to plan for the long term."
The program, called "In Her Hands," was shaped by discussions and surveys from community members that examined the causes of economic insecurity and wealth disparities in the city.
The project, run by the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund, is an initiative from the Atlanta City Council, as well as the nonprofit cash assistance service GiveDirectly. It will begin rolling out in the Old Fourth Ward, the childhood neighborhood of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was a fierce advocate for universal basic income as a way of addressing racial wealth inequities.
"We have economic insecurity that is pervasive and it's the result of decades of policies, if not more, that have made it harder for the majority of Americans to get ahead," Wollensack said.
The ability to access quality education, transportation and higher-paying jobs, the burden of childcare or predatory debt -- factors like these, Wollensack said, are also more likely to burden communities of color.
Poverty and food insecurity can impact a community's physical and mental health, and is considered one "of the most serious and costly health problems," according to the Food Research & Action Center, a national nonprofit research organization working to eradicate poverty.
'Hard to budget from zero'
Cash assistance and guaranteed income have been repeatedly proven to be a major force against poverty, according to researchers at the Columbia University, Center on Poverty & Social Policy.
Past studies and research has shown evidence that basic income experiments improved the happiness and health of its recipients and appeared to affect crime rates in the regions where it was implemented.
The program won't offer any financial literacy courses nor advise how participants will use the money. Wollensack says that, in surveying and researching the community and its financial needs, people can be trusted to make the right choices using their resources, but don't have a lot of resources to start with.
"It's hard to budget from zero," Wollensack said. "In fact, we've seen oftentimes community members with some of the fewest resources are the most resilient and resourceful."
She added, "Instead of viewing communities that may have experienced cash shortfalls as a deficit, we actually know and believe that these communities were huge assets."
Lockhart said she expects to see the effects of the income boost almost instantaneously.
She says that when the COVID-19 stimulus reached the bank accounts of Old Fourth Ward residents, she saw a mood shift among her neighbors. She says people were out and chatting with neighbors, engaging with neighborhood businesses -- the weight of financial stress lessened for just a while.
"They want to get out and work. They want to start their own businesses. They want to spend more time with their children," Lockhart said "This will help slow people down a little bit so that they can focus and center themselves and center their energy right."
They about to hookup the Sista’s.
Guaranteed income experiment for Black women aims to tackle racial wealth gap
Most participants will receive $850 a month for two years.
ByKiara Alfonseca
January 12, 2022, 6:04 AM ET
Guaranteed income experiment for Black women aims to tackle racial wealth gap
This guaranteed income experiment for Black women in Georgia is one of the largest experiments in the U.S.
When Michelle Lockhart was a teenager in Atlanta, she had to work two jobs -- as a camp counselor and fast-food worker -- to take care of her family.
She said her mother became disabled at that time due to a brain tumor, but it took months of cutting through red tape to qualify for desperately needed federal assistance.
If they had gotten more help then, "I could have focused on going to college and doing what people my age were doing: going to prom and enjoying their teen years," Lockhart, now 41, told ABC News.
In the early months of this year, 650 Black women across Georgia -- a demographic hit particularly hard by poverty -- will get some of that help. Payments of $850 per month will roll out over the next two years in one of the biggest guaranteed income experiments in the country. Some participants in the $13 million initiative may receive lump sum payments totaling the same amount they would have received over two years. For now, the process of inviting and selecting participants is ongoing.
The program will run alongside Atlanta's own basic income program which plans to serve about 300 residents that live below 200% of the federal poverty line. The initiative is currently working on making its first round of payments to the starting cohort of 25 participants, according to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' office.
Guaranteed income programs like these have seen a resurgence in recent years amid attempts to address racial and economic equality and reduce poverty. The scope can be either targeted or universal. They have had successes, but some critics say these initiatives have to be multifaceted to work and address the nuances of poverty. Others claim it will stop people from working (though the claim has been debunked) or be too expensive to maintain.
As a community advocate and member of the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force, Lockhart said many of her neighbors continue to experience similar hardships, despite working day and night in an effort to escape poverty.
"Everybody's on this hamster wheel," Lockhart said. "They're working two or three jobs … they're working low wage jobs, but they're still in poverty."
Burden on communities of color
Black residents in Atlanta are more four times as likely to be living under the federal poverty line than their white neighbors, with 46% of Black households earning below $25,000 a year, according to recent research by the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force.
Some 38% of Black women and 26% of Black men in the city are living in poverty, compared to 8% of white women and 5% of white men in the same city, the task force reports.
"We're working, we're tired, we're stressed," Lockhart said. "With an extra $850 a month, people will be able to enjoy the sunlight and will be able to spend more time with their babies."
Hope Wollensack, the executive director of the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund, said the program is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is needed to address inequality.
"It'll take a multifaceted approach -- and probably many different policies -- to even begin to address the racial wealth gap," she said. "But we do know that stabilizing one's income can be a powerful tool not only to improve one's material circumstances in the short term and to improve quality of life and opportunities but also to enable individuals across the board to plan for the long term."
The program, called "In Her Hands," was shaped by discussions and surveys from community members that examined the causes of economic insecurity and wealth disparities in the city.
The project, run by the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund, is an initiative from the Atlanta City Council, as well as the nonprofit cash assistance service GiveDirectly. It will begin rolling out in the Old Fourth Ward, the childhood neighborhood of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was a fierce advocate for universal basic income as a way of addressing racial wealth inequities.
"We have economic insecurity that is pervasive and it's the result of decades of policies, if not more, that have made it harder for the majority of Americans to get ahead," Wollensack said.
The ability to access quality education, transportation and higher-paying jobs, the burden of childcare or predatory debt -- factors like these, Wollensack said, are also more likely to burden communities of color.
Poverty and food insecurity can impact a community's physical and mental health, and is considered one "of the most serious and costly health problems," according to the Food Research & Action Center, a national nonprofit research organization working to eradicate poverty.
'Hard to budget from zero'
Cash assistance and guaranteed income have been repeatedly proven to be a major force against poverty, according to researchers at the Columbia University, Center on Poverty & Social Policy.
Past studies and research has shown evidence that basic income experiments improved the happiness and health of its recipients and appeared to affect crime rates in the regions where it was implemented.
The program won't offer any financial literacy courses nor advise how participants will use the money. Wollensack says that, in surveying and researching the community and its financial needs, people can be trusted to make the right choices using their resources, but don't have a lot of resources to start with.
"It's hard to budget from zero," Wollensack said. "In fact, we've seen oftentimes community members with some of the fewest resources are the most resilient and resourceful."
She added, "Instead of viewing communities that may have experienced cash shortfalls as a deficit, we actually know and believe that these communities were huge assets."
Lockhart said she expects to see the effects of the income boost almost instantaneously.
She says that when the COVID-19 stimulus reached the bank accounts of Old Fourth Ward residents, she saw a mood shift among her neighbors. She says people were out and chatting with neighbors, engaging with neighborhood businesses -- the weight of financial stress lessened for just a while.
"They want to get out and work. They want to start their own businesses. They want to spend more time with their children," Lockhart said "This will help slow people down a little bit so that they can focus and center themselves and center their energy right."
Check out the last post I made above.
saw this last monthYou cats in Georgia better go get yourself a Black Woman ASAP!!!
They about to hookup the Sista’s.
Guaranteed income experiment for Black women aims to tackle racial wealth gap
Most participants will receive $850 a month for two years.
ByKiara Alfonseca
January 12, 2022, 6:04 AM ET
Guaranteed income experiment for Black women aims to tackle racial wealth gap
This guaranteed income experiment for Black women in Georgia is one of the largest experiments in the U.S.
When Michelle Lockhart was a teenager in Atlanta, she had to work two jobs -- as a camp counselor and fast-food worker -- to take care of her family.
She said her mother became disabled at that time due to a brain tumor, but it took months of cutting through red tape to qualify for desperately needed federal assistance.
If they had gotten more help then, "I could have focused on going to college and doing what people my age were doing: going to prom and enjoying their teen years," Lockhart, now 41, told ABC News.
In the early months of this year, 650 Black women across Georgia -- a demographic hit particularly hard by poverty -- will get some of that help. Payments of $850 per month will roll out over the next two years in one of the biggest guaranteed income experiments in the country. Some participants in the $13 million initiative may receive lump sum payments totaling the same amount they would have received over two years. For now, the process of inviting and selecting participants is ongoing.
The program will run alongside Atlanta's own basic income program which plans to serve about 300 residents that live below 200% of the federal poverty line. The initiative is currently working on making its first round of payments to the starting cohort of 25 participants, according to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' office.
Guaranteed income programs like these have seen a resurgence in recent years amid attempts to address racial and economic equality and reduce poverty. The scope can be either targeted or universal. They have had successes, but some critics say these initiatives have to be multifaceted to work and address the nuances of poverty. Others claim it will stop people from working (though the claim has been debunked) or be too expensive to maintain.
As a community advocate and member of the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force, Lockhart said many of her neighbors continue to experience similar hardships, despite working day and night in an effort to escape poverty.
"Everybody's on this hamster wheel," Lockhart said. "They're working two or three jobs … they're working low wage jobs, but they're still in poverty."
Burden on communities of color
Black residents in Atlanta are more four times as likely to be living under the federal poverty line than their white neighbors, with 46% of Black households earning below $25,000 a year, according to recent research by the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force.
Some 38% of Black women and 26% of Black men in the city are living in poverty, compared to 8% of white women and 5% of white men in the same city, the task force reports.
"We're working, we're tired, we're stressed," Lockhart said. "With an extra $850 a month, people will be able to enjoy the sunlight and will be able to spend more time with their babies."
Hope Wollensack, the executive director of the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund, said the program is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is needed to address inequality.
"It'll take a multifaceted approach -- and probably many different policies -- to even begin to address the racial wealth gap," she said. "But we do know that stabilizing one's income can be a powerful tool not only to improve one's material circumstances in the short term and to improve quality of life and opportunities but also to enable individuals across the board to plan for the long term."
The program, called "In Her Hands," was shaped by discussions and surveys from community members that examined the causes of economic insecurity and wealth disparities in the city.
The project, run by the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund, is an initiative from the Atlanta City Council, as well as the nonprofit cash assistance service GiveDirectly. It will begin rolling out in the Old Fourth Ward, the childhood neighborhood of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was a fierce advocate for universal basic income as a way of addressing racial wealth inequities.
"We have economic insecurity that is pervasive and it's the result of decades of policies, if not more, that have made it harder for the majority of Americans to get ahead," Wollensack said.
The ability to access quality education, transportation and higher-paying jobs, the burden of childcare or predatory debt -- factors like these, Wollensack said, are also more likely to burden communities of color.
Poverty and food insecurity can impact a community's physical and mental health, and is considered one "of the most serious and costly health problems," according to the Food Research & Action Center, a national nonprofit research organization working to eradicate poverty.
'Hard to budget from zero'
Cash assistance and guaranteed income have been repeatedly proven to be a major force against poverty, according to researchers at the Columbia University, Center on Poverty & Social Policy.
Past studies and research has shown evidence that basic income experiments improved the happiness and health of its recipients and appeared to affect crime rates in the regions where it was implemented.
The program won't offer any financial literacy courses nor advise how participants will use the money. Wollensack says that, in surveying and researching the community and its financial needs, people can be trusted to make the right choices using their resources, but don't have a lot of resources to start with.
"It's hard to budget from zero," Wollensack said. "In fact, we've seen oftentimes community members with some of the fewest resources are the most resilient and resourceful."
She added, "Instead of viewing communities that may have experienced cash shortfalls as a deficit, we actually know and believe that these communities were huge assets."
Lockhart said she expects to see the effects of the income boost almost instantaneously.
She says that when the COVID-19 stimulus reached the bank accounts of Old Fourth Ward residents, she saw a mood shift among her neighbors. She says people were out and chatting with neighbors, engaging with neighborhood businesses -- the weight of financial stress lessened for just a while.
"They want to get out and work. They want to start their own businesses. They want to spend more time with their children," Lockhart said "This will help slow people down a little bit so that they can focus and center themselves and center their energy right."
Ulster County extends universal basic income experiment
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Ulster County is extending its universal basic income pilot program through the end of September. Under the program, which kicked off in May 2021, 100 eligible households received …
www.dailyfreeman.com
Mountain View accepts $100,000 grant for universal basic income program
Mountain View's guaranteed basic income pilot program will live to see another year, thanks in part to a $100,000 grant secured by the city from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
www.mv-voice.com
some other program that won't benefit me.
maybe a mofokr that works at burger king for 27 years and then complains about his parting gifts would benefit
maybe a mofokr that works at burger king for 27 years and then complains about his parting gifts would benefit
Testy today...
a UBI study was already done....nationwide..it was the 2020 shut down..for 15 month the USA was on UBI of a sort....how about using THAT as a case study?
Not really. Monthly checks were dependent on a strong unemployment system and those 3 checks wouldn't be a good yardstick. The closest thing would've been the child tax credit advance.
Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot
A pilot project that gave a monthly payment to families who needed it.
www.minneapolismn.gov
City of Alameda Guaranteed Income Pilot Program
Learn more about the Guaranteed Income Pilot Program
www.alamedaca.gov
Guaranteed basic income pilot coming to St. Louis City families
Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the Working Families Bill.
ARISE Guaranteed Income Pilot
Alexandria Recurring Income for Success and Equity (ARISE) is the City of Alexandria’s guaranteed income pilot study. ARISE provides a $500.00 monthly payment to 170 randomly selected participants for 24 months. Learn more and find the answers to frequently asked questions.
Birmingham, Alabama
- Program: Embrace Mothers
- Length: One year
- Payments: $375 a month for one year
- Participants: 110 single mothers
- Program: Alaska Permanent Fund
- Length: Annual
- Payments: $1,114 in 2021
- Participants: Alaska residents
- Program: Compton Pledge
- Length: December 2020 to December 2022
- Payments: $1,800 every three months for two years
- Participants: 800
- Length: Fall 2021 to Fall 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 500
- Length: Three years
- Payments: $1,204 a month
- Participants: 150 people ages 18 to 24 who are receiving general relief benefits
- Program: Big Leap
- Length: January 2022 to January 2023
- Payments: $1,000 a month for one year
- Participants: Approximately 3,000
- Length: 2021 to 2023
- Payments: $1,000 a month for two years
- Participants: 125 low-income women raising at least one child under 18 years old
- Program: Elevate MV
- Length: One year
- Payments: $500 every month
- Participants: 166
- Program: Oakland Resilient Families
- Length: Summer 2020 to present
- Payments: $500 a month for 18 months
- Participants: 600
- Program: Direct Investment Program in Sacramento
- Length: June 2021 to June 2022
- Payments: $300 a month for two years
- Participants: 100
- Program: The South San Francisco Guaranteed Income Program
- Length: October 2021 to October 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 135
- Program: County of Santa Clara's Basic Income Pilot
- Length: June 2020 to early 2022
- Payments: Up to $1,000 a month
- Participants: 2,400 to 2,500 young adults transitioning out of foster care
- Program: SEED (Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration)
- Length: February 2019 to February 2021
- Payments: $500 a month for two years
- Participants: 125
- Program: West Hollywood Pilot for Guaranteed Income
- Length: April 2022 to October 2023
- Payments: $1,000
- Participants: 25 randomly selected West Hollywood residents, age 50 or above, who identify as LGBTQIA
- Program: I.M.P.A.C.T. (Income Mobility Program for Atlanta Community Transformation)
- Length: One year
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 300 Atlanta residents who live below 200% of the federal poverty line
- Program: In Her Hands
- Length: Beginning early 2022 for at least two years
- Payments: $850 a month for two years; some may receive a lump sum payment
- Participants: 650 Black women, initially in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward
- Program: Just Income GNV
- Length: Winter 2021/2022 to early 2023
- Payments: $1,000, then $600 a month for 11 months
- Participants: 115 formerly incarcerated people
- Length: One year from TBD 2022 start date
- Payments: $500 a month
- Participants: 5,000 low-income people making less than $35,000 a year
- Program: Guaranteed Income Validation Effort
- Length: Spring 2021 to Winter 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 200
- Program: YALift! (Young Adult Louisville Income for Transformation)
- Length: One year
- Payments: $500 a month
- Participants: 150 young people between the ages of 18 to 24
- Program: Financial literacy program
- Length: 10 months
- Payments: $350 a month
- Participants: 125 young people between the ages of 16 to 24 either unemployed or not in school
- Length: March 2022 to March 2023
- Payments: $660 a month for one year
- Participants: 110 single parents or legal guardians of school-aged children
- Program: Cambridge Recurring Income for Success and Empowerment
- Length: June 2021 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for 18 months
- Participants: 120
- Program: Direct Assistance Stipend Program
- Length: November 2020 to present
- Payments: Between $200 to $400 a month
- Participants: 2,000
- Program: Family Health Project
- Length: May 2021 to May 2024
- Payments: $400 a month to new moms for a child's first three years
- Participants: 15
- Program: Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot
- Length: Spring 2022 to spring 2024
- Payments: $500 a month for two years
- Participants: 200 families
- Program: People's Prosperity Guaranteed Income Pilot
- Length: October 2020 to May 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for 18 months
- Participants: 150
- Program: Magnolia Mother's Trust
- Length: December 2018 to present
- Payments: $1,000 a month for one year
- Participants: 100 low-income, Black mothers
- Program: Newark Movement for Economic Equity
- Length: Fall 2021 to Fall 2022
- Payments: Bi-weekly payments of $250 and semi-annual payments of $3,000 over two years
- Participants: 400
- Program: Guaranteed Income
- Length: July 2021 to July 2022
- Payments: $400 a month for one year
- Participants: 110
- Program: The City of Santa Fe Learn, Earn, Achieve Program
- Length: 2021 to 2022
- Payments: $400 a month for one year
- Participants: 100 young parents enrolled at Santa Fe Community College
- Program: Creatives Rebuild New York
- Length: 18 months
- Payments: $1,000 a month
- Participants: 2,400 artists
- Program: HudsonUp
- Length: 2020 to 2025
- Payments: $500 a month for five years
- Participants: 25
- Program: The Bridge Project
- Length: Three years from acceptance
- Payments: $1,000 a month for three years (Phase One)
- Participants: 100 pregnant or new mothers with a baby under one year (Phase One)
- Program: Guaranteed Basic Income
- Length: Two years
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 175 low-income families
- Program: Project Resilience
- Length: Spring 2021 to Spring 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 100
- Program: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Casino Dividend
- Length: Annual
- Payments: $4,000 to $6,000 a year
- Participants: Every tribal member
- Program: Excel Pilot Program
- Length: 2022 to 2023
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 115 Durham residents who were incarcerated in the last five years
- Program: No confirmed name yet
- Length: March 2022 for at least one year
- Payments: $500 a month for at least 12 months
- Participants: 60 people who have received TANF for at least five years
- Program: Assured Cash Experiment PGH
- Length: Late 2020 to late 2022
- Payments: $500 for two years
- Participants: 100 African-American women and 100 people of any race or gender, all from low-income zip codes
- Program: Providence Guaranteed Income Pilot
- Length: November 2021 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 110
- Program: Columbia Life Improvement Monetary Boost
- Length: Early 2021 to present
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 100 low-income fathers
- Program: Alexandria Guaranteed Income Pilot
- Length: December 2021 to December 2023
- Payments: $500 a month for two years
- Participants: 150
- Program: Richmond Resilience Initiative
- Length: October 2020 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 18 low-income, working families who do not qualify for aid
- Program: Growing Resilience in Tacoma
- Length: December 2021 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 110
- Program: Strong Families, Strong Future DC
- Length: One year from February 2022
- Payments: $900 per month for one year
- Participants: 132 new and expectant mothers in Wards 5, 7 and 8
Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot
A pilot project that gave a monthly payment to families who needed it.www.minneapolismn.gov
City of Alameda Guaranteed Income Pilot Program
Learn more about the Guaranteed Income Pilot Program
Guaranteed basic income pilot coming to St. Louis City families
Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the Working Families Bill.www.kmov.com
ARISE Guaranteed Income Pilot
Alexandria Recurring Income for Success and Equity (ARISE) is the City of Alexandria’s guaranteed income pilot study. ARISE provides a $500.00 monthly payment to 170 randomly selected participants for 24 months. Learn more and find the answers to frequently asked questions.www.alexandriava.gov
Birmingham, Alabama
Alaska
- Program: Embrace Mothers
- Length: One year
- Payments: $375 a month for one year
- Participants: 110 single mothers
Compton, California
- Program: Alaska Permanent Fund
- Length: Annual
- Payments: $1,114 in 2021
- Participants: Alaska residents
Long Beach, California
- Program: Compton Pledge
- Length: December 2020 to December 2022
- Payments: $1,800 every three months for two years
- Participants: 800
Los Angeles, California
- Length: Fall 2021 to Fall 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 500
Los Angeles, California
- Length: Three years
- Payments: $1,204 a month
- Participants: 150 people ages 18 to 24 who are receiving general relief benefits
Marin County, California
- Program: Big Leap
- Length: January 2022 to January 2023
- Payments: $1,000 a month for one year
- Participants: Approximately 3,000
Mountain View, California
- Length: 2021 to 2023
- Payments: $1,000 a month for two years
- Participants: 125 low-income women raising at least one child under 18 years old
Oakland, California
- Program: Elevate MV
- Length: One year
- Payments: $500 every month
- Participants: 166
Sacramento, California
- Program: Oakland Resilient Families
- Length: Summer 2020 to present
- Payments: $500 a month for 18 months
- Participants: 600
South San Francisco, California
- Program: Direct Investment Program in Sacramento
- Length: June 2021 to June 2022
- Payments: $300 a month for two years
- Participants: 100
Santa Clara County, California
- Program: The South San Francisco Guaranteed Income Program
- Length: October 2021 to October 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 135
Stockton, California
- Program: County of Santa Clara's Basic Income Pilot
- Length: June 2020 to early 2022
- Payments: Up to $1,000 a month
- Participants: 2,400 to 2,500 young adults transitioning out of foster care
West Hollywood, California
- Program: SEED (Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration)
- Length: February 2019 to February 2021
- Payments: $500 a month for two years
- Participants: 125
Atlanta, Georgia
- Program: West Hollywood Pilot for Guaranteed Income
- Length: April 2022 to October 2023
- Payments: $1,000
- Participants: 25 randomly selected West Hollywood residents, age 50 or above, who identify as LGBTQIA
Georgia
- Program: I.M.P.A.C.T. (Income Mobility Program for Atlanta Community Transformation)
- Length: One year
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 300 Atlanta residents who live below 200% of the federal poverty line
Gainesville, Florida
- Program: In Her Hands
- Length: Beginning early 2022 for at least two years
- Payments: $850 a month for two years; some may receive a lump sum payment
- Participants: 650 Black women, initially in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward
Chicago, Illinois
- Program: Just Income GNV
- Length: Winter 2021/2022 to early 2023
- Payments: $1,000, then $600 a month for 11 months
- Participants: 115 formerly incarcerated people
Gary, Indiana
- Length: One year from TBD 2022 start date
- Payments: $500 a month
- Participants: 5,000 low-income people making less than $35,000 a year
Louisville, Kentucky
- Program: Guaranteed Income Validation Effort
- Length: Spring 2021 to Winter 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 200
New Orleans, Louisiana
- Program: YALift! (Young Adult Louisville Income for Transformation)
- Length: One year
- Payments: $500 a month
- Participants: 150 young people between the ages of 18 to 24
Shreveport, Louisiana
- Program: Financial literacy program
- Length: 10 months
- Payments: $350 a month
- Participants: 125 young people between the ages of 16 to 24 either unemployed or not in school
Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Length: March 2022 to March 2023
- Payments: $660 a month for one year
- Participants: 110 single parents or legal guardians of school-aged children
Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Program: Cambridge Recurring Income for Success and Empowerment
- Length: June 2021 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for 18 months
- Participants: 120
Lynn, Massachusetts
- Program: Direct Assistance Stipend Program
- Length: November 2020 to present
- Payments: Between $200 to $400 a month
- Participants: 2,000
Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Program: Family Health Project
- Length: May 2021 to May 2024
- Payments: $400 a month to new moms for a child's first three years
- Participants: 15
St. Paul, Minnesota
- Program: Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot
- Length: Spring 2022 to spring 2024
- Payments: $500 a month for two years
- Participants: 200 families
Jackson, Mississippi
- Program: People's Prosperity Guaranteed Income Pilot
- Length: October 2020 to May 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for 18 months
- Participants: 150
Newark, New Jersey
- Program: Magnolia Mother's Trust
- Length: December 2018 to present
- Payments: $1,000 a month for one year
- Participants: 100 low-income, Black mothers
Paterson, New Jersey
- Program: Newark Movement for Economic Equity
- Length: Fall 2021 to Fall 2022
- Payments: Bi-weekly payments of $250 and semi-annual payments of $3,000 over two years
- Participants: 400
Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Program: Guaranteed Income
- Length: July 2021 to July 2022
- Payments: $400 a month for one year
- Participants: 110
New York
- Program: The City of Santa Fe Learn, Earn, Achieve Program
- Length: 2021 to 2022
- Payments: $400 a month for one year
- Participants: 100 young parents enrolled at Santa Fe Community College
Hudson, New York
- Program: Creatives Rebuild New York
- Length: 18 months
- Payments: $1,000 a month
- Participants: 2,400 artists
New York, New York
- Program: HudsonUp
- Length: 2020 to 2025
- Payments: $500 a month for five years
- Participants: 25
Rochester, New York
- Program: The Bridge Project
- Length: Three years from acceptance
- Payments: $1,000 a month for three years (Phase One)
- Participants: 100 pregnant or new mothers with a baby under one year (Phase One)
Ulster County, New York
- Program: Guaranteed Basic Income
- Length: Two years
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 175 low-income families
North Carolina / Cherokee Tribe
- Program: Project Resilience
- Length: Spring 2021 to Spring 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 100
Durham, North Carolina
- Program: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Casino Dividend
- Length: Annual
- Payments: $4,000 to $6,000 a year
- Participants: Every tribal member
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Program: Excel Pilot Program
- Length: 2022 to 2023
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 115 Durham residents who were incarcerated in the last five years
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Program: No confirmed name yet
- Length: March 2022 for at least one year
- Payments: $500 a month for at least 12 months
- Participants: 60 people who have received TANF for at least five years
Providence, Rhode Island
- Program: Assured Cash Experiment PGH
- Length: Late 2020 to late 2022
- Payments: $500 for two years
- Participants: 100 African-American women and 100 people of any race or gender, all from low-income zip codes
Columbia, South Carolina
- Program: Providence Guaranteed Income Pilot
- Length: November 2021 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 110
Alexandria, Virginia
- Program: Columbia Life Improvement Monetary Boost
- Length: Early 2021 to present
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 100 low-income fathers
Richmond, Virginia
- Program: Alexandria Guaranteed Income Pilot
- Length: December 2021 to December 2023
- Payments: $500 a month for two years
- Participants: 150
Tacoma, Washington
- Program: Richmond Resilience Initiative
- Length: October 2020 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 18 low-income, working families who do not qualify for aid
Washington, DC
- Program: Growing Resilience in Tacoma
- Length: December 2021 to December 2022
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 110
- Program: Strong Families, Strong Future DC
- Length: One year from February 2022
- Payments: $900 per month for one year
- Participants: 132 new and expectant mothers in Wards 5, 7 and 8
This is MIND FUCKERY.. women and babies, this is some population control shit..
why is the MAN left out...???? they ALWAYS LEAVE THE MAN OUT ESPECIALLY THE BRUHS!!!
this faggot gay agenda ran society HATES SINGLE STRAIGHT BRUHS.. and gets retarded when
WE call them out on their demonic fuckery..
If you against NATURE (GOD) you are on team satan...
FUCK TEAM SATAN TO THE PITS OF HELL FOREVER BRUH!!!
POWER AND ETERNAL ENERGY FOR THE STRAIGHT RIGHTEOUS BRUHS!!!
Columbia, South Carolina
- Program: Columbia Life Improvement Monetary Boost
- Length: Early 2021 to present
- Payments: $500 a month for one year
- Participants: 100 low-income fathers
Nice good info bruh..
BUUUUUUUT
ONLY 100...
THEY GOTTA DO BETTER BRUH..
it should be the whole fuckin city....
but its a start...
Good Info never the less
but South Carolina owes Real Knigga aka The Seminoles
The Geechie GODS
waaaaaaaaaay more than that......
but again..
its small as fuck, damn near microscopic but its a start.
and they need to keep that start moving up ... numbers
low as fuck!!!
I dont understand what the issue is...we did this already....the experiment lasted 15 months....it worked..
Holy shit I forgot how bgol on on to shit waaaay before mainstream I was just having a conversation with a friend about this, It's coming and it won't be good for you
You don't think UBI will be good? Why not? (just curious)
$750 a month was given to homeless people in California. What they reported spending it on is more evidence that universal basic income works.
Participants in a study reported being more likely to find shelter and closer to meeting basic needs.
Natalie Musumeci
Dec 20, 2023
Participants in a study reported being more likely to find shelter and closer to meeting basic needs.
Natalie Musumeci
Dec 20, 2023
How homeless people said they spent $750-a-month stipend supports basic income
Those who got the $750 monthly stipend were less likely to report being unsheltered and said they were better able to meet basic needs, the study found.
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Gov. Dunleavy’s budget includes large PFDs, but no increase to per-student education funding
Dunleavy pitched the large PFDs as a way to help Alaskans keep up with inflation.By Eric Stone
December 14, 2023
Gov. Dunleavy’s budget includes large PFDs, but no increase to per-student education funding
The $10.5 billion plan is a starting point for negotiations with leaders in the state House and Senate as they hammer out the state’s budget.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R-AK) listens to a question during a news conference announcing his budget proposal on Dec. 14, 2023.
Texas senator says the plan to give poor residents a $500 guaranteed basic income is unconstitutional
Harris County, which includes Houston, plans to give qualifying residents $500 a month.
Kenneth Niemeyer
Jan 20, 2024
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Texas State Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston)
Harris County, which includes Houston, plans to give qualifying residents $500 a month.
Kenneth Niemeyer
Jan 20, 2024
Texas senator says the plan to give poor residents a $500 guaranteed basic income is unconstitutional
Harris County, which includes Houston, is offering $500 guaranteed basic income payments to the area's poorest residents.
www.businessinsider.com
Texas State Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston)
Texas senator says the plan to give poor residents a $500 guaranteed basic income is unconstitutional
Harris County, which includes Houston, plans to give qualifying residents $500 a month.
Kenneth Niemeyer
Jan 20, 2024
Texas senator says the plan to give poor residents a $500 guaranteed basic income is unconstitutional
Harris County, which includes Houston, is offering $500 guaranteed basic income payments to the area's poorest residents.
Texas State Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston)
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Austin, TX. experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. They spent the no-strings-attached cash mostly on housing, a study found.
Participants who said they could afford a balanced meal also increased by 17%.
Kenneth Niemeyer
Jan 28, 2024
Austin, TX.
Participants who said they could afford a balanced meal also increased by 17%.
Kenneth Niemeyer
Jan 28, 2024
Basic income payments spent mostly on housing in Austin, study finds
A guaranteed basic income plan in Austin that gave low-income residents $1,000 a month reduced housing insecurity.
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Austin, TX.
A guaranteed basic income program in Minneapolis found that even after a year of giving recipients $500 a month, they weren't working any less
Minneapolis's guaranteed basic income program has shown promising results after a year. The two-year GBI program gives $500 monthly to 200 low-income families, no strings attached.
Katie Balevic
Jan 28, 2024
Minneapolis's guaranteed basic income program has shown promising results after a year. The two-year GBI program gives $500 monthly to 200 low-income families, no strings attached.
Katie Balevic
Jan 28, 2024
Minneapolis basic income program hasn't caused recipients to work less
A Minneapolis guaranteed basic income program found that after a year of giving recipients $500 a month, they were more financially secure and didn't work less.
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