As the debate over the idea of universal basic income continues across the country, the city of Cambridge is set to launch a program providing $500 a month to more than 100 residents.
The city’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Initiative will administer the recurring payments to 120 of the community’s most vulnerable residents for more than 18 months, WHDH reported. The checks will go out to single caretaker households with children under the age of 18.
The pilot program will look at the guaranteed income program’s long-term impact on local and national economic policy as well.Calls for providing people with a guaranteed […]
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