Mayor Carter’s guaranteed income pilot yields promising results in St. Paul

Mayor Carter’s guaranteed income pilot yields promising results in St. Paul

Courtesy of Wikipedia The results of St. Paul’s pilot program, using public dollars to provide families with a guaranteed monthly income, indicate positive trends in employment, physical and mental health, and other indicators of well-being and quality of life.

In 2020, Mayor Melvin Carter and the City of Saint Paul launched the People’s Prosperity Pilot during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, using funds from the CARES Act, along with state and private funding. The pilot program provided 150 St. Paul families $500 a month for 18 months.

The pilot was operated between October 2020 and April 2022. During that time, […]

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