They didn't quite win the lottery, but thousands of low-income Americans are receiving regular payouts from the government as part of a sweeping social experiment aimed at answering the question: What would happen if you addressed poverty by sweeping aside the programs, regulations, the means-testing and the oversight and just gave people unconditional cash?
Prince George's County has approved legislation to create a Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Program for low-income families to receive monthly cash stipends.
$500 worth of monthly payments from a Guaranteed Income Pilot program will be arriving in ten days. In this article, read and find out who will be receiving these payments every month! The residents of the city of El Monte in Los Angeles County, California are expected to receive $500 worth of checks every month. […]
A new dashboard highlights the proliferation of guaranteed income programs, which are rapidly moving from fringe local experiments to state-level policies.In February 2019, Michael D. Tubbs, mayor of Stockton, California, launched a radical experiment. He started one of the nation’s first guaranteed income pilots, randomly selecting 125 residents at or below the city’s median household income to receive $500 a month for 24 months, no strings attached.