Guaranteed basic income helps working class families. So why isn’t it more widespread?

Guaranteed basic income helps working class families. So why isn’t it more widespread?

Porchia Willis has spent a lot of time doing math.

There’s her rent in Cambridge, where she’s raising her 9-year-old daughter and the median cost for a 2-bedroom is about $3,200. She has a housing voucher, but it doesn’t pay for everything. There’s groceries, transportation, utility bills, and all the costs associated with raising a child, including childcare.

Those calculations got easier in September 2021 when the city announced Cambridge RISE, a Guaranteed Basic Income pilot program that would provide Willis and 130 other single-parent families with $500 per month for a year and a half — no strings attached. In […]

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