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.
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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.
Biden Has Helped the Quiet Revolution of Giving People Money
The expanded Child Tax Credit also marked a bigger shift in American social policy: It was one of the first new programs in decades to provide Americans a government allowance in cash with virtually no strings attached.