In this Aug. 14, 2019, photo, Susie Garza displays the city provided debit card she receives monthly through a trial program in Stockton, Calif. A study of people in California who received $500 a month for free says they used it to pay off debt and get full-time jobs. A pair of independent researchers reviewed data from the first year of the study and released their finding on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. A program designed to test the effects of monthly no-strings-attached payments is up and running in Madison.
Participants received their first $500-a-month deposits on Sept. 1 and Oct. […]
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