Denver Gave Homeless People $1,000 Per Month and It Got Them Off the Streets and Working Full-Time

Denver Gave Homeless People $1,000 Per Month and It Got Them Off the Streets and Working Full-Time

"Nothing helps you out of poverty when you live in a capitalist society like money in your pocket."

/ Future Society / Basic Income / Homelessness / Universal Basic Income Image by Getty Images Solving homelessness completely is an exceedingly difficult task that’d likely require systemic changes on a sweeping level .

But that doesn’t mean we don’t already have the tools to help in concrete ways.Case in point: the city of Denver, Colorado recently handed out monthly payments, ranging from $50 to $1,000, to 800 unhoused residents.The results of the universal basic income (UBI) experiment were both counterintuitive and […]

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