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Some of L.A.’s poorest families received cash assistance of $1,000 a month as part of a 12-month pilot project launched nearly three years ago. There were no strings attached and they could use the money however they saw fit.
✏️ The premise 🔗 View Highlight
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disbursed 3.9 million to help design the trial and survey participants throughout about their experiences.
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the country’s first large-scale guaranteed-income pilot using public funds
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meaningful increase in savings and were more likely to be able to cover a $400 emergency during and after the program.
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Guaranteed-income recipients also were more likely to secure full-time or part-time employment, or to be looking for work, rather than being unemployed and not looking for work, the study found.
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a preventative measure against homelessness
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prevented or reduced the incidence of intimate partner violence, the analysis found, by making it possible for people and their children to leave and find other housing.
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sleeping better, exercising more, resuming necessary medications and seeking mental health therapy for themselves and their children.
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more likely to enroll their kids in sports and clubs during and after the pilot.
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The program was funded through the city budget and included $11 million that city leaders moved from the Police Department budget
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“It’s simply wrong for the city government to take tax dollars earned and paid by people who are trying to pay their own bills and transfer that money to other people chosen by the government to receive it,” the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. said in a statement. “Guaranteed-income programs are appropriately funded voluntarily by charitable organizations and foundations, not forcibly through the tax code.”
✏️ Complaints about using tax money to give to others.. but honestly, this makes the most sense. Why rely on voluntary charity when wealth can be properly distributed as we’re seeing here? The money is getting taxed for one reason or another.. isn’t it better served going to people that need it, than to the police that would just buy more guns? #followup 👓 socialism 🔗 View Highlight