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LIFF’S Market at 600 Alabama Avenue, SE by Elvert Barnes licensed under Creative Commons . During the pandemic several local organizations piloted a program offering cash transfers to low income residents mostly in Ward 8. THRIVE East of the River was created to assist residents most vulnerable to negative economic and social impacts of the pandemic, and help provide a financial bridge for people now and through recovery.

Unlike other assistance programs, there are no restrictions on how participants can use the funds. That means researchers were able to see how a guaranteed income pilot program impacts a participant’s well […]

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In February 2020, before COVID-19 arrived in full force in the U.S., Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gathered politicians, academics, and ordinary Chicagoans to an anti-poverty summit called Solutions Toward Ending Poverty, or STEP, to kick off a mayoral agenda dedicated to finding concrete solutions to “entrenched generational poverty,” Lightfoot says. While many bought into the discourse, critics balked. “Some people looked at me like I had two heads,” she says. “Why is she even talking about these things?”

Then, the pandemic hit, decimating jobs and incomes, and throwing even more people into poverty. Cities across America rushed to implement safety […]

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In February 2020, before COVID-19 arrived in full force in the U.S., Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gathered politicians, academics, and ordinary Chicagoans to an anti-poverty summit called Solutions Toward Ending Poverty, or STEP, to kick off a mayoral agenda dedicated to finding concrete solutions to “entrenched generational poverty,” Lightfoot says. While many bought into the discourse, critics balked. “Some people looked at me like I had two heads,” she says. “Why is she even talking about these things?”

Then, the pandemic hit, decimating jobs and incomes, and throwing even more people into poverty. Cities across America rushed to implement safety […]

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A guaranteed income pilot is launching this spring in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. (Courtesy Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund) In Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, a $13 million initiative is launching this spring to give cash directly to people in poverty. It’s an idea called guaranteed income.

Pilots are already underway around the country, but it’s no coincidence this trial is happening in the Old Fourth Ward, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born, preached and is now buried.

“He knew our civic rights were hollow if we don’t also have economic rights to back those up, so among the reforms […]

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One study showed that participants in guaranteed income programs spend more of the money on food than any other items. (File Photo) LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At the end of April, participants in Louisville’s new guaranteed income program will receive their first monthly payment of $500. The money will be theirs to do with as they please and one month later, they’ll get paid again.

“Rent, food, school, home expenses, child care — whatever allows them more flexibility in planning and building for their futures,” Mayor Greg Fischer explained earlier this month when announcing YALift!, or Young Adult Louisville Income for […]

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City Hall on March 2, 2021. Credit: Maya Pratt Penn will jointly operate one of Philadelphia’s two experimental pilot programs studying the impact of guaranteed income policies on the city’s low-income population.

The University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia’s Housing Development Corporation will jointly operate one of the initiatives, which will focus on housing and be launched in the spring , the Inquirer reported. Philadelphia’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity will execute the other program , which will run for at least a year, providing roughly 60 people with $500 per month to spend at their discretion.

The first initiative will […]

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