"The question we don't really have a good answer to is, what would happen if we scaled these programs up on a larger level?" ...

Guaranteed basic-income pilots across the US give no-strings cash assistance to low-income families. Funding often comes from foundations and federal relief funding, not just taxpayer dollars. GBI ...

Aimed at combating poverty, GBI faces political challenges and funding constraints. But pilots' success could create momentum for wider-spread programs, even at the state level. Michael Tubbs wants to ...

Basic income pilot programs have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans, according to a coalition of lawmakers.

The city of Los Angeles just released a report on the city’s BIG:LEAP program. That’s the acronym for the “Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot” program. The 2021 program ...

Local lawmakers are currently piloting their desired next nationwide expansion of the welfare state. Dozens of guaranteed income pilots are running across the country at the local and state level, ...

The idea of guaranteed income programs has been around for decades, but it wasn’t until one of the country’s first guaranteed income programs launched in Stockton in 2019 that the idea began gaining ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half after the city’s guaranteed basic income pilot program ended, some Los Angeles city councilmembers say they now have proof the program works – and they want to revive it so ...

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