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Associate Professor, SP2, UPenn Co-Founder, Center for Guaranteed Income Research @Penn
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AltStateGov
20 days ago
www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
More and more evidence of these types of programs having positive benefits
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Philly’s first-in-the-nation experiment giving cash to struggling renters is working, researchers say
Families that got cash rental assistance were less likely to be evicted, experience homelessness, and report having serious problems with their homes, according to a study of the PHLHousing+ program.
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/housing/rental-assistance-philadelphia-pilot-program-penn-research-phlhousing-20250903.html
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Michael A. Lewis
about 1 month ago
Essay about the the recent study of unconditional cash and child development the NY Times covered:
www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
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George Takei
4 months ago
I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.
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Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy
4 months ago
Join us on June 17 at 2PM ET to explore how
#PublicBanks
can power
#GuaranteedIncome
and a just economy! Feat. Rep. Rashida Tlaib,
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,
@amycastro.bsky.social
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@trinitytran.bsky.social
,
@grahamsteele.bsky.social
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@darrickhamilton.bsky.social
RSVP:
bit.ly/PublicBankingandGI
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Torr đź§µ
5 months ago
"How 2 guaranteed income programs have taken hold in Minnesota - Springboard for the Arts is running both a rural and urban program and has some lessons for success."
www.fastcompany.com/91331198/how...
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How 2 guaranteed income programs have taken hold in Minnesota
Springboard for the Arts is running both a rural and urban program and has some lessons for success.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91331198/how-2-guaranteed-income-programs-have-taken-hold-in-minnesota
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Rebecca Plevin
5 months ago
Last year, LA Community College District launched a privately funded guaranteed income program for low-income students pursuing health careers. I followed one student in the initiative to learn how a basic income might influence the lives and choices of L.A. community college students.
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Can $1,000 a month help more students land nursing careers? An L.A. pilot effort says yes
L.A. Community College District is giving hundreds of low-income students $1,000 a month in unrestricted income in hopes of keeping them enrolled and helping deliver a more diverse and multilingual he...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-28/1-000-a-month-guaranteed-income-community-college-health-care-careers
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
5 months ago
🚨New Executive Action Tracker Entry🚨 Administration Fires Experts Who Produce Poverty Guidelines That Affect Millions:
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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Administration Fires Experts Who Produce Poverty Guidelines That Affect Millions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
April 28, 2025: In early April the Trump Administration laid off the team of analysts who calculate the poverty guidelines used to administer more than 40 programs serving well over 80 million people.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/executive-action-watch?item=29851
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Robert Reich
7 months ago
DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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Robert Reich
7 months ago
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Natalie Foster
7 months ago
with a pending constitutional crisis on our hands, Jason Furman published an essay entitled “The Post-Neoliberal Delusion: And the Tragedy of Bidenomics.”
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rebuttal shows the blind spots + makes a strong case gov’t shaping markets
open.substack.com/pub/chrishug...
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Wait a second, Jason
The post-neoliberal turn in political economy is a valuable and transformative shift in economic policymaking
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishughes749530/p/wait-a-second-jason?r=cg5q&utm_medium=ios
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PhD in Social Welfare at Penn SP2
9 months ago
Congrats to Alexander Bervik & Anna Ferris on their publication in the Int'l Journal of Social Welfare! Their work examines how U.S. immigration laws shape welfare access for forced migrants, revealing inequalities rooted in "deservingness."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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An ideology of deserving: A historical analysis of the United States' immigration policies governing forced migration and social welfare
Legislation governs both the admittance and treatment of forced migrants in the United States. Increasingly, many forced migrants are offered few welfare benefits, temporary protection, and no pathwa...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijsw.12706
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