Might handing cash to struggling neighbors pay for itself in later prosperity?
The Arlington Community Foundation is spearheading a real-world test of the proposition, with cooperation from the county’s Department of Human Services.
As described last month at the Arlington Committee of 100, the experiment with a “guaranteed income” or “unconditional cash” might seem a socialistic challenge to common sense. But it would put Arlington in some good company around the region and the country.“Arlington is at a crossroads,” said Anne Vor der Bruegge, the foundation’s director of grants and initiatives. In our pandemic-worsened “affordability crisis,” the lowest-income are “rapidly being […]
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