States should listen to the research and to people with the lived expertise of making a limited income work for their families: both say guaranteed income programs that provide cash to households with low incomes are a powerful mechanism to deal with financial hardship and build a strong economic foundation for the future. What states shouldn’t do is prohibit these programs, an unfortunate trend in some states and a position put forward by the conservative Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA).
Bills to preempt local governance and to prohibit these successful guaranteed income (GI) programs are either under consideration or in […]
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