"Participants were more likely to handle a $400 emergency and were also twice as likely to have $500 or more saved. Only 15% said they were going into debt compared to the 42% of people who weren’t in the program."

NEW: Alameda is testing whether providing $1,000 per month in unconditional cash payments will reduce economic instability for low-income residents. At the pilot's midpoint, data shows that the recipients are indeed more financially stable. www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-al...

NEW: Data from Ithaca's guaranteed income pilot program, which looked at the impact of cash payments for unpaid caregivers, shows better health, improved financial stability, and increased employment. Read the full report here: www.guaranteedincomeworks.org/data-from-it...

Our Legislators for a Guaranteed Income roster keeps on growing! Next, we're excited to welcome MN State Senator @senjohnmarty.bsky.social to LGI 🎉

This is guaranteed income in action!

Guaranteed income works, and you don't have to just take our word for it. Nobel Prize-winning economists Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo agree, in a recent essay in the Wall Street Journal.

Richmond, VA has been on a 15-year mission to reduce poverty through a slate of initiatives, including a guaranteed income. The result? Poverty has declined not only among every racial and ethnic group in Richmond. It’s also gone down more than twice the rate of VA overall.

@annielowrey.bsky.social is right: cash payments work.

We're excited to welcome Howard County Executive Calvin Ball as our newest CGI member this week! Howard County recently launched a new guaranteed income pilot program to look at the impact of 20 families receiving $1,000 a month in unrestricted cash payments for one full year.

Proud of Legislators for a Guaranteed Income (LGI) founding member, MA State Rep. Marjorie Decker of Cambridge, for co-leading a "massive" new bill to expand guaranteed income in Massachusetts. 👏

Exciting news! Howard County is launching a new #GuaranteedIncome pilot program in which 20 families will receive $1,000 a month in unrestricted cash payments for one full year.

"Infants born to people who received $1,000, no-strings-attached, were nearly half as likely to die as infants born to people who got no cash. ...Cash cut mortality in children under 5 by about 45%, the study researchers found, on par with interventions like vaccines and anti-malarials."

Since launching in April, Legislators for a Guaranteed Income has already grown! We’re excited to have MN State Senator @lizboldonmn.bsky.social part of our coalition of state lawmakers advocating for direct cash policies on the state level 👏 Learn more about LGI at LegislatorsForAGI.org

Great news from Los Angeles! The @lacity.bsky.social City Council allocated $2 million for a new guaranteed income pilot program focused on survivors of domestic violence and foster youth.

The guaranteed income movement was well represented at @netrootsnation.bsky.social last week! During the Cash Not Cages panel, participants discussed how guaranteed income disrupts the cycle of poverty and incarceration.

You’ve probably seen headlines about the study implying that direct cash support makes no difference to families. I was away on family vacay when the story broke, but now that I’m back, I want to unpack why that framing is misleading, and share what experts are saying. 🧵

We've already seen from the results of Birmingham's pilot program that cash payment policies work for Alabama families. This week, we're excited to keep the momentum around guaranteed income going in Alabama and welcome Aliceville's Mayor Terrence E. Windham to MGI!

Fixed it! Guaranteed income works for kids. And we've got the data to prove it: guaranteedincomeworks.org/research

CA State Assemblymember Matt Haney is a long-time guaranteed income champion, having launched the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Guaranteed Income Advisory Task Force. We’re excited to have Assemblymember Haney as one of our LGI founders!

Our founder, Michael D. Tubbs, issued the following statement in response to a July 28th story in the New York Times on guaranteed income and child development. 1/2 static1.squarespace.com/static/60ae8...

Cook County is home to one of the largest #GuaranteedIncome pilot programs in the nation — and this week, we're excited to welcome another member of Cook County's Board of Commissioners to CGI, Commissioner Stanley Moore 🎉

Our Executive Director, Sukhi Samra, spoke with WBGO about the results of Newark's guaranteed income pilot program. www.wbgo.org/section/newa...

MD State Delegate @gabrielacevero.bsky.social already has a long history of advocating for guaranteed income policies in Maryland’s House of Delegates. We’re proud to have him as a founding member of Legislators for a Guaranteed Income!

CC @mayorsforagi.bsky.social And of note, the Iowa Lege outlawed UBI last year just as we were preparing to launch a pilot here in Johnson County.

Families shouldn't have to go into debt or cut back on food just to afford school supplies. This is why #GuaranteedIncome is so important: American families need greater financial stability. (Source: Credit Karma's back-to-school 2025 survey) cc @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

MGI member @mayor.lacity.gov recently announced a plan to provide direct cash assistance to people who have been affected by the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration raids. This is guaranteed income in action!

"...the development of AI requires a discussion about what the industry owes society for the damage it will cause. 'AI’s worth is created by all of our data, all of our experiences, so everyone should have an ownership stake in that,' said Michael Tubbs."

Six months after the Eaton fires, Compton's former mayor and @mayorsforagi.bsky.social alum Aja Brown discusses a new blueprint for disaster relief, including direct cash to impacted families, "helping them rebuild quickly, with dignity, and without red tape."

Cambridge, MA is already proving that guaranteed income works through the only city-wide direct cash assistance program of its kind in the country. We're excited to have Cambridge's own Marjorie Decker as a founding member of LGI 👏

From big cities to small towns, our mayors are working hard to advance guaranteed income across the U.S. This week, we're excited to welcome agricultural scientist and Mayor of Greenville, FL, Ryan Kornegay, to MGI! 🎉

Zaaear Pack, mother, Baltimore native, and entrepreneur was one of 200 young parents to receive $1,000 / month for 24 months as part of Mayor Brandon M. Scott's guaranteed income pilot. In a new op-ed in the Baltimore Sun, Zaaear explains how guaranteed income helped her rebuild her life.

It's our birthday! This movement has accomplished a lot in 5 years — we've gone from one pilot in Stockton, CA, to 72 pilots in 26 states, and from 11 Mayors to more than 250 elected officials strong across the city, county, and state levels. And we're just getting started...

Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller has been a long-time champion of Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, which is one of the largest publicly funded guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S. This week, we're excited to officially welcome Commissioner Miller to CGI!

Under the leadership of LGI founding members and IL State Senators Ram Villivalam and @senatorguzman.bsky.social, Illinois is considering legislation to create a statewide guaranteed income fund and another proposal to add a guaranteed income-like component to the state's TANF funding. 👏

If you missed it, last week we released the results of Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social's guaranteed income pilot program in Newark. The TL;DR: Cash payments led to improvements in financial resilience, housing & food security, mental health & parent-child time.

"The bottom line? People who are struggling to make ends meet know exactly what they need to do for their families – and we should trust them to do it." 👏 #GuaranteedIncome

NEW: Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social's #GuaranteedIncome pilot looked at the impact of recurring vs. lump-sum payments for low-income residents. The results show improvements in financial resilience, housing and food security, mental health and parent-child time.

Happy belated #FathersDay to all the dads out there! As our founder Michael Tubbs wrote in 2024: "The findings from [our guaranteed income] programs give us a roadmap for how we can meaningfully support fathers — particularly Black fathers facing a double bind of an income and wealth gap."

We're excited to welcome our 3rd Johnson County supervisor to Counties for a Guaranteed Income this week! Supervisor Mandi Remington joins fellow Iowans for a guaranteed income, Sup. V Fixmer-Oraiz and Sup. @modestholdings.com‬ 👏

Did you know there are currently 25 bills introduced in 11 states for some form of statewide guaranteed income program? In North Carolina, founding LGI member State Senator Natalie Murdock introduced legislation to establish a guaranteed income program through 2035! 👏

We have a growing movement in Iowa! Founding LGI member @levinforiowa.bsky.social joins MGI member Mayor Quentin Hart, plus CGI members and Johnson County Supervisors V Fixmer-Oraiz and @modestholdings.com in defending the financial stability and dignity of Iowa's families.

Happy Tribeca Film Festival! Our documentary about the guaranteed income movement, It's Basic, premiered at the 2023 festival. Since then, we have gone on to screen it in 33 cities across the U.S. and spread our message that guaranteed income works — and we've got the data and stories to prove it.

Proud to have NY State Senator @agounardes.bsky.social as a founding member of Legislators for a Guaranteed Income and work together to bring the movement for unconditional cash aid policies to the state level! 🗽

It's true! Guaranteed income works. "Not a single pilot has shown decreased employment among recipients of guaranteed income, and the vast majority of pilots have shown increased rates of full-time employment."

Big week: Maine is officially in the house! 🌲 York County Commissioner Justin Chenette is our newest Counties for a Guaranteed Income member, making him the first elected official representing Maine in the Mayors, Counties, and Legislators for a Guaranteed Income network.

We are proud to have @athenahollins.bsky.social as a founding member of Legislators for a Guaranteed Income! Rep. Hollins is a longtime guaranteed income champion, including as the author of a bill to make Minnesota one of the first states to launch a guaranteed income program.

"Participating adults were 44% less likely to experience homelessness after one year in the program. And contrary to popular belief, the extra money did not hurt employment. Full-time employment rose 11% for those in the program, compared to a 4% increase in a control group." #Oakland

PA State Rep. @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is one of 23 founding members of Legislators for a Guaranteed Income! Learn how we're organizing state lawmakers to advocate for guaranteed income policies at the state level at LegislatorsForAGI.org.

Just 40% of U.S. households can achieve a minimal quality of life according to new analysis. Guaranteed monthly income is a policy tool to help American families cover their basic necessities, and we've got data from 20 academic studies to prove that it works: guaranteedincomeworks.org/research

Check out our friends @springboardarts.bsky.social in @fastcompany.com this week 👏