A COMMUNITY BUILT ON TRUST
The Guaranteed Income Community of Practice (GICP) convenes policy experts, advocates, researchers, leaders, funders, practitioners and elected officials to learn and collaborate in the maturing arena of unconditional cash programs.
Community Spotlight
Jamie Keene, a fellow at Economic Security Project and former Special Assistant to the President for Equality and Opportunity in the Biden-Harris White House, presented a blueprint of four executive actions a future progressive administration could take to expand cash assistance without waiting on Congress. Drawing on her experience inside the administration — where she saw how much time gets lost building internal consensus rather than implementing policy — she argues for using the next governing moment's first weeks to act, not deliberate.
Her four proposals: (1) broadening TANF into more of a child allowance by expanding non-recurrent short-term benefit authority; (2) using a Medicaid 1115 waiver to offer a "birth grant" during pregnancy and postpartum; (3) unlocking Title IV-E prevention funds for cash-based child welfare prevention, to address poverty-driven family separation; and (4) pairing cash with a market-focused agenda — stronger competition/consumer-protection enforcement and a price-capped "basic basket" of essentials, modeled on Mexico's canasta básica — so cash stretches further. All four proposals are framed as complements to, not substitutes for, a bolder legislative agenda in 2029.
1,300+
Convening Members
825+
Organizations Represented
160+ Across 35 States
Demonstrations Supported Nationwide
A FOUNDATION OF EQUITY
The GICP builds on the success of two landmark guaranteed income programs: the Magnolia Mother’s Trust and the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration. The lessons learned from the first large-scale community-based pilot (MMT) and the first mayor-led demonstration (SEED) produced robust systems of support for new equity-focused guaranteed income programs to use.
Co-Convening Organizations
