Dancers perform during the NOLA Youth Town Hall at the New Orleans African American Museum on Saturday, August 3, 2024. (Photo by Matthew Perschall, The Times-Picayune) STAFF PHOTO BY MATTHEW PERSCHALL For nearly a year, New Orleans tried giving $350 a month to a group of young people, part of a privately funded experimental program to see if a universal basic income would make a significant difference in their lives.
Now a new report by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research has detailed the results of that program.
It found that the money helped ease some of the […]
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