Aisha Nyandoro: Government support for Americans to blunt the recession’s impact can be a model for the future.
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Video: Positioning This Great Pause as a Critical Pivot Toward More Equitable Funding Practices
Black nonprofit and philanthropic leaders reflect on the extraordinary burden of the COVID-19 crisis on BIPOC communities and leaders of color and the great opportunity it offers philanthropy to pursue more equitable funding practices that prioritize more proximate leaders and solutions.
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Government programs proposed as an emergency response, like unemployment insurance, SNAP and Medicaid, are also essential to helping families in need. But they’re not enough.
Give poor people a guaranteed income and let them spend it however they please
Guaranteed income, a form of universal basic income, can boost people out of poverty. It may also become essential during the coronavirus pandemic.
What Stockton’s UBI Experiment Can Teach Us About Surviving Coronavirus
“The fact that we are even having conversations about giving people money is already showing that the system is shifting,” says Aisha Nyandoro.