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.
The Magnolia Mothers Trust
Off-Kilter Podcast: “Child Poverty Was Always a Political Choice”: What’s Next for America’s Child Allowance?
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.
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.
Front and Center: ‘We Should Have Daycares and Vouchers so People Can Actually Work,’ Says Mississippi Single Mom
In 2020 alone, officials in the Mississippi state government spent over $94 million in federal welfare funds considered by state audit to “suspect spending.” “What good could have been done in Mississippi with this $94 million? How many families could’ve been impacted?” said Aisha Nyandoro.