New Orleans Will Give Unconditional Cash Payments To Opportunity Youth wwno.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wwno.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bryan Woolston/Reuters
Natalie Foster is the cofounder of the Economic Security Project, a network dedicated to advancing a guaranteed income in America.
She says in the wake of COVID-19, economic resilience can be part of our reality through guaranteed income.
Guaranteed income is a robust response to so many contradictions.
We see the benefits of divorcing work from worth playing out in Stockton, California. Mayor Michael Tubbs, the first Black mayor elected to office at the ripe age of 26, is running a guaranteed income pilot. He makes the case that poverty comes from a lack of cash, not a lack of character.
Universal Basic Income Comes to Oakland and Marin County—What Could Go Wrong? redstate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from redstate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Save this story for later.
On Tuesday, March 9th, Amy Castro Baker stood on her front porch and watched as her two teen-age children boarded a bus and went off to school together for the first time in a year. Her sense of relief was profound. Baker, a researcher of economic mobility and an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvaniaâs School of Social Policy & Practice, had been through a challenging period familiar to most parentsâand especially to working mothers. For the past year, she had balanced the demands of a full-time job with overseeing her kidsâ online schooling, while also cooking, cleaning, and running the household as a single parent. âWeâre at the point in my home where itâs a choice between whatâs higher risk,
The city that pays you $500 per month to live there
A trial project that offers a guaranteed income has produced some groundbreaking results as support for monthly cash payments builds
13 March 2021 • 12:00pm
Stockton, in California, suffered more foreclosures during the subprime crisis than any other US city and was declared bankrupt in 2012
Credit: Kim White/Telegraph
The city of Stockton in California is a little more than an hour’s drive from the gleaming Silicon Valley headquarters of Google, Apple and Facebook, but it feels light years away.
Its heyday was arguably the mid 19th century, when its direct river access to the thousands arriving in San Francisco from around the world made it a key trading outpost for the argonauts chasing riches during the Gold Rush. But in this century, its name has usually come up for the wrong reasons.