The Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock. In 2023, Arkansas became the first state to implement a ban on universal basic income programs. Photo: Philip Gould. A right-wing think tank is using its influence with Republican lawmakers to prohibit guaranteed income programs that provide no-strings cash to people with very low incomes, despite the broad popularity of such programs as a poverty reduction strategy. This advocacy is leading to conflicts between more progressive localities seeking to implement these programs and the GOP-dominated state legislatures that oppose them.
Just this year, bills to prohibit counties and cities from operating guaranteed income […]
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