The results are in for the largest basic income pilot program in the US.
Participants in the Los Angeles-based program reported that they had better employment outcomes, felt safer at home, enrolled their kids in more extracurriculars, and were more likely to leave domestically abusive situations, according to the pilot study’s results.
The Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot , or BIG:LEAP, gave over 3,200 households $1,000 in monthly no-strings-attached cash payments for 12 months starting in January 2022. Participants had to have or be expecting a dependent child and fall below the federal poverty threshold, with average household […]
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