San Francisco’s Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) is developing a $5 million pilot program to give a group of city residents a basic income—and is hoping to convince a city in the South Bay to join in the experiment.
Like other basic income programs , the pilot would be designed to provide a steady income to participants, with no requirements as to how the money is spent.
At a sold-out forum hosted this week by the Universal Income Project , OFE director Sean Kline told the audience that more evidence is needed to test the idea that direct cash transfers are […]
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