Ulster study shows unconditional cash in pilot program improves quality of life

Ulster study shows unconditional cash in pilot program improves quality of life

KINGSTON – People who received monthly cash payments for 17 months as part of the Ulster County Project Resilience guaranteed income program reported improved quality of life as a result of increased financial assistance, according to a report by SP2’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research (CGIR).

Project Resilience in Ulster is the first county-led guaranteed income program in the United States.

“Ulster County encapsulates in microcosm the difficulties facing the American labor market, even before the impact of the pandemic,”write the report’s authors, Elizabeth DeYoung , Amy Castro , Nidhi Tandon , Allison Thompson , and Stacia West of CGIR. The […]

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