Recipients of monthly $500 payments as part of Cambridge RISE, the city’s guaranteed income pilot program, had greater full-time employment than a control group, according to a study released Wednesday.
The study, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research, found that employment rates among the 130 households selected for the pilot rose from 36 percent to 40 percent after 12 months, while employment fell among the control group by two percentage points over the same period.
Geeta Pradhan, the president of the Cambridge Community Foundation, said Thursday that the results would be effective in “myth-busting” the notion […]
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