Monthly cash payments, no strings attached: Why cities are piloting guaranteed income programs

Monthly cash payments, no strings attached: Why cities are piloting guaranteed income programs

In the final chapter of his 1967 book “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a bold approach to eliminating poverty. “The solution to poverty,” he wrote, “is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.”

Five decades later, the approach is being tested across the U.S.

The idea is simple but controversial.People receive a set amount of money periodically with no strings attached. Advocates believe that this gives recipients, often in the most marginalized groups, freedom to spend it in ways that are most beneficial for their […]

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