Under a pilot program, Newark will give recipients $12,000 in income over the next two years, with no strings attached. Alison Lefkovitz, an associate professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers-Newark, says this is not the first universal basic income experiment in New Jersey. By Alison Lefkovitz
This spring, 30 people in Newark began receiving a $12,000 income over the next two years , with no strings attached as to how the individual spends it. The program is part of Newark’s universal basic income (UBI) pilot, created to provide housing security for some of the city’s poorest […]
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