Foto: Generation Grundeinkommen In February 2019, backed by a $1 million grant from the Economic Security Project , the city of Stockton, California, began giving people in need what they needed most: cash. They built their program, SEED (the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration) on a simple but radical premise: “ Poverty results from a lack of cash, not character.”
A team led by Amy Castro Baker of the University of Pennsylvania and Stacia Martin-West of the University of Tennessee sought to find out what happens when 125 people who live in low-income census tracts are given a monthly $500 […]
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