Can giving people cash keep them from going back to prison?

Can giving people cash keep them from going back to prison?

The last few years have seen significant victories for the guaranteed income movement — the push to simply give people cash with no strings attached. Pilot programs in places ranging from Stockton, California , to southwestern Kenya have been launched in recent years, and the research literature on the positive effects of guaranteed income is growing.

A new pilot program is now pushing guaranteed income into a new frontier by focusing on a potentially controversial constituency: formerly incarcerated people. The outcome of the program may help define the political bounds of just giving people money.

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