No Strings Attached

Published: June 16, 2023, 6 a.m.

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What happens when people living in poverty get a stable income from the government? More than 100 guaranteed income pilot programs have launched across the U.S. and most are found in California. How is a regular income \\u2014 with no restrictions on how to spend the money \\u2014 making a difference for participants? In this episode, we spend a month with Martha and Micaela, two participants of a pilot program launched by the city of Los Angeles \\u2014 one of the biggest guaranteed income programs in the country where half of the beneficiaries are Latinx \\u2014 and we learn about the history of Universal Basic Income.

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