Stanford Basic Income Lab
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Advancing our collective understanding of the politics, philosophy, economics, & implementation of basic income and related cash policies. housed @centerpovineq
Stanford, California
Joined July 2020
RT @Ugentilini: Cash as medicine?. “If understood as one piece of a renewed public system for ensuring the wellbeing of US residents, [#bas….
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"An analysis of dozens of U.S.-based guaranteed- income pilot programs by Stanford University’s Basic Income Lab found that participants spent most of the money on groceries and retail sales, which includes shopping at big box stores such as Walmart."
wsj.com
Dozens of guaranteed-income programs have popped up in cities and counties, and Republicans are trying to block them.
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A baby's first year is crucial for development. It's also a time of peak #poverty All new moms in #Flint, #Michigan, now get #cash aid to tackle poverty #guaranteedincome #ubi.
npr.org
Flint, Mich., aims to be a model for wiping out deep poverty during a crucial time for child development. The new benefits start during pregnancy to encourage prenatal care.
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Catch @PennCGIR's @staciawestphd on @Marketplace . addressing 'The afterlife of #MLK's call for a #guaranteedincome' #UBI
marketplace.org
Why Universal Basic Income (UBI) is gaining popularity today.
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Launched this week! Rx Kids — a $55 million experiment to study how cash payments can protect #Flint, Michigan children from the toxic stress of #poverty #guaranteedincome #basicincome .@MonaHannaA.
bridgemi.com
Michigan will experiment with guaranteed income in Flint, one of its poorest cities, giving expectant and new moms $7,500 — no strings attached — to lift the stress of poverty from their newborns.
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“By almost every financial metric, the lump sum group did better than the monthly payment group.” However, people who got monthly payments were happier, reported better mental health & used #roscas for lump sums. @dylanmatt @voxdotcom @GiveDirectly #ubi.
vox.com
Money always helps, but for the very poor, one lump sum can last a long time.
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To clarify, #guaranteedincome is always and completely unconditional — that’s arguably its greatest superpower ⚡️ @EJulianMiller @wbz
cbsnews.com
The Boston City Council held a hearing Monday on a guaranteed basic income program for families living in poverty.
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"As human beings we all want agency — the ability to make decisions based on what we believe is important for us," says Laker-Oketta.” @GiveDirectly @NPR #UBI #climate
npr.org
On an extinct volcano in Uganda, hundreds of thousands face disaster due to climate change. The charity GiveDirectly is trying a surprising approach to help them get out of harm's way.
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RT @alixgouldwerth: One of today’s most heated debates around income support programs is about work requirements. 1/13.
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Guaranteed income? 14th grade? Before AI, tech fears drove bold ideas. @washingtonpost #UBI #guaranteedincome
washingtonpost.com
Three-quarters of a century before artificial intelligence concerns, rapid advances in automation prompted panic about mass unemployment—and radical solutions.
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New: graphs on the Pilots Dashboard situate U.S. pilots in the context of #COVID-19-era #unemployment and #inflation. #guaranteedincome
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RT @OshanJarow: My hottest take on basic income is that it’s actually not very radical at all. It would deliver neither a creative utopia….
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Check out @UpliftIowa (the Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot) and @MayorSPH's Level Up (Mount Vernon, NY) — newly added to the Guaranteed Income Pilots Dashboard. #guaranteedincome #UBI #cashtransfers.
guaranteedincome.us
Track the latest data from Guaranteed Income pilots around the U.S.
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Join @CenterPovIneq @AspenFood & @sharestrength .Thur, Oct 12 for a dynamic panel on transforming our #foodsystems for the 21st Century & #foodjustice. Join on the Stanford campus or via Zoom: #FoodSecurity #GuaranteedIncome #EconomicSecurity
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RT @KarlWiderquist: The Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) conference is coming up in October. Although there's a lot of….
fribis.uni-freiburg.de
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RT @CenterPovIneq: New poverty & #inequality data was released this morning by @USCensusBureau, showing dramatic increase in #poverty under….
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Our Director spoke to KCRW public radio about the proliferation of pilots in the U.S. The piece starts with the powerful voices of Kameko Charles and.Vaughn Luis — two participants in Breathe, the @CountyofLA #guaranteedincome program.
kcrw.com
LA’s universal basic income pilot program “BIG: LEAP” provided a life-changing safety net for many Angelenos. What happens when that money goes away?
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RT @DaveBrady72: Poverty, not the poor | Science Advances . My new article just got released in Science Advances to….
science.org
Recent research changes our understanding of the causes of and policies for reducing systemically high poverty in the U.S.
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