Highlights from 2025: - Expanded our network to 250 US elected officials - 27 research studies demonstrate guaranteed income works - Reached 72 pilots in 26 states, delivering $335M in direct relief to 30,000 Americans. - 25 bills are now under consideration across 11 states.

Thank you to founding MGI Co-Chair @mayorcarter.bsky.social and first mayor to invest public funds in a guaranteed income program. Mayor Carter's leadership and tireless commitment has put GI in the national conversation and expanded what’s possible for so many.

Notre Dame study finds Rochester’s guaranteed basic income program worked www.whec.com/top-news/not...

Yes, guaranteed basic income works. www.whec.com/top-news/not...

‘Guaranteed income works.’ Fresno State study shows monthly stipends reduced debt for families in poverty A little over a year ago, Ariel and Derek Williams weren’t sure how they were ever going to pay down their PG&E debt. Then came Fresno County’s first-ever guaranteed basic income program. The…

NEW: Fresno County provided $500 a month in guaranteed income to 150 residents for a year. The results show improvements in financial stability, greater food security, and more parent-child quality time. Read the full report: https://www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-fresno-county

Alameda’s Guaranteed Income Recipients See Improvements in Finances and Beyond https://alamedapost.com/news/alamedas-guaranteed-income-recipients-see-improvements-finances-beyond/

Cash assistance doesn’t create “dependency.” It creates stability. Guaranteed income programs across the country show the same thing again and again: Steady cash lowers stress, improves health, and makes it possible for people to work, plan, and breathe without punishment. #adopteesky

“Low-income workers are more likely to stay employed if they receive an unanticipated cash transfer, rather than leave the labor market, as most people worry they will,” said Dionne Pohler, the David and Alexandra Lipsky Professor in Dispute Resolution and Labor Relations at #CornellILR.

Breaking Down Misconceptions On Unconditional Cash Programs PARC Associate Amy Castro et al. shared findings from their research on guaranteed income & universal basic income @amycastro.bsky.social https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/sp2-mitchell-center-economics-well-being-amy-castro-ioana-marinescu

Cook County, where I grew up, has just made guaranteed basic income a permanent social safety net. Some very much needed good news.

This certainly speaks - once again - to the power of providing a guaranteed basic income to folks. Ultimately, a fairly inexpensive way to begin to solve a big social problem, homelessness.

Welcome to Legislators for Guaranteed Income, KY House Minority Whip, Joshua Watkins! We are excited to partner with you and our growing coalition of state lawmakers advocating for direct cash policies.

New evidence in support of universal basic income. This is via the Rx Kids program that's going to babies for their 1st year of life. The $500/mo has led to a 32% reduction in allegations of maltreatment among infants compared to the control group. This has also been seen as a result of Alaska's UBI

The Community Love Fund is a guaranteed income program built and run by abolitionist women.

For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program. Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.

🎉 Congrats to Counties for Guaranteed Income co-chair and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and other county leaders for passing the first PERMANENT guaranteed income program in the country. The affordability crisis requires bold leadership. This is what it looks like.

NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level. The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

"In the current moment, we have a powerful opportunity—and responsibility—to improve the health of babies and their parents. Guaranteed income programs are proving to be one effective way to do just that."

In this @pennlive.com op-ed, Ali Groves (Drexel University) argues that new parents in Pennsylvania should have better help with food and financial insecurity. She notes the effectiveness of The Philly Joy Bank, an income assistance program for families. Read: www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025...

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.

Cook County just made history. With its 2026 budget, the County becomes the first in the nation to make #guaranteedincome permanent, putting money directly back into families’ pockets. ESIL is proud to partner on this nation-leading effort.

April 2020: My Cook County colleagues and I propose a COVID emergency cash fund and are met with chuckles and eye rolls. After 6 months of pestering we get a small pot of money. November 2025: Cook Co funds the first permanent guaranteed income program in the country. Never, ever give up. Never.

United Way of Pierce County, WA and Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services CEOs call for guaranteed income: "A statewide direct cash-transfer pilot for pregnant people and new parents will help ensure that those who do choose to grow their families can do so with stability, dignity, and support."

"With the financial support, I was able to protect my children by staying in hotels when we had nowhere else to go. That money meant we didn’t have to choose between safety and survival. It gave me the time and breathing room to begin healing from trauma and to start planning for a better future."

"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."

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

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”.

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.

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.

"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...

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."

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...

🧵 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...

Can confirm. Read the studies for yourself: GuaranteedIncomeWorks.org

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

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...

"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.

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

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...

"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.”

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.

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."