Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of what local media outlets and Twitter-ers are gabbing about. St. Paul’s Basic Income Program: It Works!
A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times published a story that was Making The Rounds on Twitter/X. The short version: Researchers had given homeless people $750 a month to spend on whatever they wanted, which ended up mostly being food, housing, transportation, clothing, health care—basic human needs. After six months, researchers found that only 12% of the unhoused folks who received funds were still homeless.
St. Paul’s story hasn’t gone viral yet, but the […]
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