Mayors for a Guaranteed Income
@mayorsforagi.bsky.social
A network of mayors, county officials and state legislators advocating for direct cash policies that create economic stability for all Americans. www.mayorsforagi.org
"The extra support from the [guaranteed income program] came at a time when my car was broken down, and it helped me get it fixed and cover basic bills. But it was about more than the money—it also gave me the positivity and hope that comes from being around people who want to see me succeed."
‘I’m Working Just to Survive’: A Single Mom on SNAP Cuts, Two Jobs and Big Dreams
‘I’m Working Just to Survive’: Single Mom in Jackson, Mississippi, on SNAP Cuts, Two Jobs, Big Dreams, Guaranteed Income and Magnolia Mother's Trust
msmagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"The extra support from the [guaranteed income program] came at a time when my car was broken down, and it helped me get it fixed and cover basic bills. But it was about more than the money—it also gave me the positivity and hope that comes from being around people who want to see me succeed."
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The shutdown is over, but families are still waiting on full SNAP benefits. Until those payments resume, we’ll keep sending direct cash so they can keep food on the table: GiveDirectly.org/snap
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The shutdown is over, but families are still waiting on full SNAP benefits. Until those payments resume, we’ll keep sending direct cash so they can keep food on the table: GiveDirectly.org/snap
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Ireland just proved that investing in creativity pays off — literally. Its basic income pilot for artists boosted wellbeing and returned €1.39 for every euro spent. Freed from financial pressure, creatives made more art, earned more, and relied less on welfare support.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Ireland just proved that investing in creativity pays off — literally. Its basic income pilot for artists boosted wellbeing and returned €1.39 for every euro spent. Freed from financial pressure, creatives made more art, earned more, and relied less on welfare support.
New in USA Today: how guaranteed income addresses the affordability crisis, featuring stories from pilot participants and MGI founder Michael Tubbs:
"So much of the job of government was solving for the problems caused by poverty. But we weren't doing enough to solve for poverty itself”.
"So much of the job of government was solving for the problems caused by poverty. But we weren't doing enough to solve for poverty itself”.
What is universal basic income, and can it solve the affordability crisis?
A policy of giving out regular, unconditional cash payments is gaining popularity as the cost of living grows and AI looms over the job market.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New in USA Today: how guaranteed income addresses the affordability crisis, featuring stories from pilot participants and MGI founder Michael Tubbs:
"So much of the job of government was solving for the problems caused by poverty. But we weren't doing enough to solve for poverty itself”.
"So much of the job of government was solving for the problems caused by poverty. But we weren't doing enough to solve for poverty itself”.
Exactly why we need policies like guaranteed income that unrig the system, and deliver the economic conditions for freedom and dignity for all.
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Exactly why we need policies like guaranteed income that unrig the system, and deliver the economic conditions for freedom and dignity for all.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Sacramento remains on track to launch a first ever city-led guaranteed income program for foster youth.
The program is expected to provide monthly cash payments of at least $750 starting next July.
The program is expected to provide monthly cash payments of at least $750 starting next July.
Sacramento income program may guarantee $1K monthly to foster youth
Requirement will include for youth to be 18 to 24 and income to not exceed 200% of the federal poverty level — about $31,000 per year.
www.sacbee.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sacramento remains on track to launch a first ever city-led guaranteed income program for foster youth.
The program is expected to provide monthly cash payments of at least $750 starting next July.
The program is expected to provide monthly cash payments of at least $750 starting next July.
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"Rx Kids is an example of how a program designed to improve public health can also produce economic benefits for the community.”
- @bradhershbein.bsky.social, Upjohn Institute
Read the Upjohn Institute's analysis of the progam:
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
- @bradhershbein.bsky.social, Upjohn Institute
Read the Upjohn Institute's analysis of the progam:
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
October 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Rx Kids is an example of how a program designed to improve public health can also produce economic benefits for the community.”
- @bradhershbein.bsky.social, Upjohn Institute
Read the Upjohn Institute's analysis of the progam:
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
- @bradhershbein.bsky.social, Upjohn Institute
Read the Upjohn Institute's analysis of the progam:
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
As the Trump admin refuses to fully fund SNAP, guaranteed income programs are filling the gap:
"She's fortunate, she said, because she receives $725 a month from a guaranteed income program...that gives her some flexibility that other families across the state and nation simply don't have."
"She's fortunate, she said, because she receives $725 a month from a guaranteed income program...that gives her some flexibility that other families across the state and nation simply don't have."
Uncertainty lingers as Sacramento-area families await partial CalFresh payments
Partial CalFresh aid is coming after the federal government was ordered to release rainy day fund.
www.sacbee.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
As the Trump admin refuses to fully fund SNAP, guaranteed income programs are filling the gap:
"She's fortunate, she said, because she receives $725 a month from a guaranteed income program...that gives her some flexibility that other families across the state and nation simply don't have."
"She's fortunate, she said, because she receives $725 a month from a guaranteed income program...that gives her some flexibility that other families across the state and nation simply don't have."
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Across Minnesota, Toronto and Oakland, arts leaders are pioneering ways to sustain artists and preserve cultural spaces — from guaranteed income programs to cooperatives reclaiming real estate.
nextcity.org/podcast/alte...
nextcity.org/podcast/alte...
Alternative Models For Funding and Supporting Cultural Spaces and Workers
Across Minnesota, Toronto and Oakland, arts leaders are pioneering ways to sustain artists and preserve cultural spaces — from guaranteed income programs to cooperatives reclaiming real estate.
nextcity.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Across Minnesota, Toronto and Oakland, arts leaders are pioneering ways to sustain artists and preserve cultural spaces — from guaranteed income programs to cooperatives reclaiming real estate.
nextcity.org/podcast/alte...
nextcity.org/podcast/alte...
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🧵 Madison Forward Fund results
Location: Madison, WI
Participants: 155 (parents)
Control group: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 1 yr
Recipients given $500/mo were MORE likely to be full-time employed and MORE likely to be job-seeking than non-recipients
www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
Location: Madison, WI
Participants: 155 (parents)
Control group: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 1 yr
Recipients given $500/mo were MORE likely to be full-time employed and MORE likely to be job-seeking than non-recipients
www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🧵 Madison Forward Fund results
Location: Madison, WI
Participants: 155 (parents)
Control group: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 1 yr
Recipients given $500/mo were MORE likely to be full-time employed and MORE likely to be job-seeking than non-recipients
www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
Location: Madison, WI
Participants: 155 (parents)
Control group: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 1 yr
Recipients given $500/mo were MORE likely to be full-time employed and MORE likely to be job-seeking than non-recipients
www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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There’s strong evidence that guaranteed income improves lives, but 10 states are using abusive preemption to block local GI programs. Mary Bogle of @urbaninstitute.bsky.social explores how this impacts the ability to test GI & ways we can still move forward. www.supportdemocracy.org/the-latest/p...
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
There’s strong evidence that guaranteed income improves lives, but 10 states are using abusive preemption to block local GI programs. Mary Bogle of @urbaninstitute.bsky.social explores how this impacts the ability to test GI & ways we can still move forward. www.supportdemocracy.org/the-latest/p...
NEW: Madison, Wisconsin experimented with giving low-income families $500 a month in guaranteed income for one year.
The results show improvements in financial resilience, better health choices, and higher rates of employment.
Read the full report at: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
The results show improvements in financial resilience, better health choices, and higher rates of employment.
Read the full report at: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Madison, Wisconsin experimented with giving low-income families $500 a month in guaranteed income for one year.
The results show improvements in financial resilience, better health choices, and higher rates of employment.
Read the full report at: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
The results show improvements in financial resilience, better health choices, and higher rates of employment.
Read the full report at: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ma...
"A new Sacramento State report shows giving low-income families $500 a month for one year significantly improved their financial and food security."
$500-a-month program helped Sacramento families gain stability, study finds
YouTube video by ABC10
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October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"A new Sacramento State report shows giving low-income families $500 a month for one year significantly improved their financial and food security."
NEW: @repbonnie.bsky.social introduces the Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Act, which provide 10k Americans with financial stability and freedom over 3 years.
Lawmakers float a nationwide basic income experiment that would cover the cost of a 2-bedroom apartment
It would be a tough sell in today's Congress, but if passed, the bill would launch a nationwide basic income experiment for low-income Americans.
www.businessinsider.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
NEW: @repbonnie.bsky.social introduces the Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Act, which provide 10k Americans with financial stability and freedom over 3 years.
After rigorously researching 25 guaranteed income pilots across the US, one thing is crystal clear: Guaranteed Income just works.
The data show that it gives families the stability and freedom to thrive.
See the proof at guaranteedincomeworks.org
The data show that it gives families the stability and freedom to thrive.
See the proof at guaranteedincomeworks.org
Guaranteed Income Works
Guaranteed income is unrestricted cash payments given directly to individuals on a recurring basis to boost their financial stability.
guaranteedincomeworks.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
After rigorously researching 25 guaranteed income pilots across the US, one thing is crystal clear: Guaranteed Income just works.
The data show that it gives families the stability and freedom to thrive.
See the proof at guaranteedincomeworks.org
The data show that it gives families the stability and freedom to thrive.
See the proof at guaranteedincomeworks.org
NEW: The Baltimore Young Families Success Fund (BYFSF) provided 200 young parents with $1k/month over 2 years.
Data show the program improved financial stability, housing and food security, mental health and increased employment.
Read the full report: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ba...
Data show the program improved financial stability, housing and food security, mental health and increased employment.
Read the full report: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ba...
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NEW: The Baltimore Young Families Success Fund (BYFSF) provided 200 young parents with $1k/month over 2 years.
Data show the program improved financial stability, housing and food security, mental health and increased employment.
Read the full report: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ba...
Data show the program improved financial stability, housing and food security, mental health and increased employment.
Read the full report: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-ba...
"The results of Baltimore’s Young Families Success Fund show how direct cash support unlocks potential and creates opportunities for families to move from surviving to thriving. This aligns with data from over 20 other cities, proving that GI is a policy solution for poverty and income inequality.”
Guaranteed income pilot lifted young Baltimore families out of financial stress, researchers find
A two-year guaranteed income program for young parents in Baltimore improved financial stability, reduced stress and increased education and job participation, according to new data.
www.baltimoresun.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"The results of Baltimore’s Young Families Success Fund show how direct cash support unlocks potential and creates opportunities for families to move from surviving to thriving. This aligns with data from over 20 other cities, proving that GI is a policy solution for poverty and income inequality.”
LA County Supervisor and co-Chair of Counties for Guaranteed Income, Holly Mitchell on the BREATHE program:
“This is about helping you by stabilizing your income, and to give you the space and room to breathe, to prepare yourself for a more economically stable future.”
“This is about helping you by stabilizing your income, and to give you the space and room to breathe, to prepare yourself for a more economically stable future.”
County program helps boost foster youth into adulthood
A Los Angeles County guaranteed income program, dubbed “BREATHE,” is helping set up low-income residents — including more than 2,000 foster youth aging out of care — for success by providing them with...
www.naco.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
LA County Supervisor and co-Chair of Counties for Guaranteed Income, Holly Mitchell on the BREATHE program:
“This is about helping you by stabilizing your income, and to give you the space and room to breathe, to prepare yourself for a more economically stable future.”
“This is about helping you by stabilizing your income, and to give you the space and room to breathe, to prepare yourself for a more economically stable future.”
Zaaear is a mother, a Baltimore native, and entrepreneur.
She is also a recipient of the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund guaranteed income program.
Her story shows how direct, unrestricted cash programs can reduce precarity and bring freedom and opportunity to so many families like hers.
She is also a recipient of the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund guaranteed income program.
Her story shows how direct, unrestricted cash programs can reduce precarity and bring freedom and opportunity to so many families like hers.
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Zaaear is a mother, a Baltimore native, and entrepreneur.
She is also a recipient of the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund guaranteed income program.
Her story shows how direct, unrestricted cash programs can reduce precarity and bring freedom and opportunity to so many families like hers.
She is also a recipient of the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund guaranteed income program.
Her story shows how direct, unrestricted cash programs can reduce precarity and bring freedom and opportunity to so many families like hers.
And yet somehow giving people in poverty money is 'radical'?
Billionaire wealth has gone up by $33 trillion in the last ten years.
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
And yet somehow giving people in poverty money is 'radical'?
"[Basic income] could mean the difference between a soft landing with minimal financial strife, and a hard fall that stresses both personal households and other shrinking social safety nets."
thehill.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"[Basic income] could mean the difference between a soft landing with minimal financial strife, and a hard fall that stresses both personal households and other shrinking social safety nets."
NEW: Our Executive Director Sukhi Samra claps back at David Brooks' anti-GI rant in NYT:
"Direct cash works because it fundamentally trusts people to solve their own problems... It is the infrastructure of freedom—a floor sturdy enough to make every other solution possible."
"Direct cash works because it fundamentally trusts people to solve their own problems... It is the infrastructure of freedom—a floor sturdy enough to make every other solution possible."
Progressives Don’t Want David Brooks in Our Movement Anyway | Common Dreams
The toxic attitudes of Brooks and others toward poor people are the problem. Direct cash works because it fundamentally trusts people to meet their own needs.
www.commondreams.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: Our Executive Director Sukhi Samra claps back at David Brooks' anti-GI rant in NYT:
"Direct cash works because it fundamentally trusts people to solve their own problems... It is the infrastructure of freedom—a floor sturdy enough to make every other solution possible."
"Direct cash works because it fundamentally trusts people to solve their own problems... It is the infrastructure of freedom—a floor sturdy enough to make every other solution possible."