This primer was developed to educate about the ways guaranteed income and related cash-based policies not only strengthen low and moderate-income communities and communities of color, but also build a healthy and more resilient economy.
Press
Income Programs’ Differences Show Equity is Key
Many anti-poverty groups agree that strategically targeted guaranteed income, not UBI, is the best path forward to ending poverty, advancing gender and racial equity and supporting low-income Americans.
Front and Center: With Guaranteed Income, “Now I Can Cover My Bills and Do Fun Things for My Son”
What possibilities could open up for low-income families if financial survival weren’t always top of mind? What dreams would these mothers and families be able to pursue?
Magnolia Mother’s Trust marks a history-making three cycles of paying Black mothers $1,000 a month
The Magnolia Mother’s Trust is now the longest-running guaranteed income program in the United States. But the program, which gives Black mothers in Jackson, Mississippi, $1,000 a month for one year, no strings attached, was never meant to last forever.
The Jackson Water Crisis Is a Crisis of Leadership
The failure of our water system is the product of years of neglect and systematic disinvestment from a majority Black city, but it is also emblematic of the larger disregard and negligence that our leaders have shown towards all residents in Mississippi.
Black Women Best: The Framework We Need for an Equitable Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have cemented an American truth
that’s been ignored for too long by too many: Through its policy and political choices, the
US continues to prioritize the interests of a wealthy, predominantly white few over the
well-being of all its people, but especially over the protection of Black and brown lives.