Guaranteed Income Blueprint Self-Diagnostic

Use this self diagnostic to help assess your organization or coalition's readiness around multiple variables along the Guaranteed Income Blueprint to further an offensive or defensive initiative. With this tool, you can identify actionable steps if a defense bill is introduced in your state, or steps to advance offensive efforts. Even if a full fledged offensive or defensive campaign is not possible, significant progress can still be made toward strategic objectives. It is common to have few, if any, ratings of 5, as guaranteed income campaign implementation is a relatively new and evolving field in the US.

A Policy Landscape Review of 105 Programs in the United States

Cash assistance programs have been piloted as Basic or Guaranteed Income across the United States. This research asks how programs are being designed and evaluated, with implications for how collective program impacts are understood.

John's Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health (2024)

Guaranteed Income & Health Consortium Toolkit

The Guaranteed Income & Health Consortium (GIHC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is focused on providing technical assistance to strengthen the United States (U.S.) guaranteed income (GI) landscape with an emphasis on health equity. We are committed to building robust scientific evidence that examines the health implications of GI, guided by research and design justice principles that elevate co-creating knowledge, resources, and tools. We believe in a world where everyone has the opportunity to attain the highest level of health and envision GI’s potential to transform lives, especially historically minoritized communities.

Center for Guaranteed Income Research (2024)

A Policy Framework for Guaranteed Income and the Safety Net

Paired with other innovative health interventions (e.g., Medicaid Section 1115 demonstrations), child and family policies (e.g., Child Savings Accounts or Child Welfare Prevention), or climate and disaster response strategies (e.g., Justice40 Initiative), GI can provide financial stability to absorb income volatility, generate opportunities for wealth acquisition and economic mobility, and promote thriving communities.

RxKids (2024)

Playbook for Replicating Rx Kids

This document describes the nuts and bolts of how to access TANF funds to support an Rx Kids program, and how state departments of human services can protect other social benefits from being impacted by Rx Kids cash prescriptions. It is a “living document” that will be updated with time. In brief, states can use TANF funding to implement an Rx Kids program by replicating the prescribed steps outlined in the Rx Kids Policy Playbook.

Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (2024)

State Fact Sheets: How States Spend Funds Under the TANF Block Grant

States have broad flexibility over the use of state and federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds. Many have used that flexibility to divert funds away from income support for families and toward other state budget areas often unrelated to TANF’s goals. In 2021, states spent only about a fifth of the funds on basic assistance to meet essential needs of families with children. Investments in cash assistance can improve academic, health, and economic outcomes for children in families in poverty, research shows. In the linked map, click on a state for a fact sheet detailing how it spends its state and federal TANF funds.

NYC Family Policy Project (2024)

The Protective Power of Cash

Shifting Cash Support in New York to Promote Family Well-Being: Lessons from Research on Guaranteed Income and Child Welfare: Research is clear that families turn to cash assistance in times of deep hardship and emergency. Today, the number of people needing to rely on cash assistance in New York City is the highest it has been in almost 25 years. In October, more than 100,000 NYC families were enrolled in cash assistance for needed support.

Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (2024)

States and Localities Can Use Guaranteed Income to Support People Experiencing Homelessness or Housing Instability While Promoting Dignity and Racial Equity

Guaranteed income provides cash assistance to people based on a determined need — such as experiencing housing instability or having income below a certain level — with assistance typically ranging between $500 and $1000 a month. Promising findings from individual pilot programs support broader research demonstrating that GI programs can be a mechanism for helping people meet their needs.

First-in-the-Nation “New York Healthy Birth Grant” to Slash Childhood Poverty

The New York Healthy Birth Grant would use flexible Medicaid dollars to create a statewide program that gives working families a one-time grant of $1,800 for every birth financed by Medicaid. The New York Healthy Birth Grant builds upon other antipoverty proposals from Senator Gounardes, including the Working Families Tax Credit, which would streamline and expanding existing tax credits by raising the maximum credit to $1,600 per child, providing a $100 minimum credit per child, eliminating the cap on the number of eligible kids and pinning the credit to inflation.

City of Milwaukee

Substitute resolution relating to the reallocation and expenditure of up to $847,900 of American Rescue Plan Act funds.

This bill proposes the reallocation and expenditure of up to $847,900 of American Rescue Plan Act funds. It reallocates the contract funds to the Office of the City Clerk and authorizes the expenditure of those funds for the following purposes: 1. Up to $350,000 for City participation in the Zilber Foundation’s The Bridge Project. 2. Up to $497,900 for the Concordia 27 development. Ald. Bauman, Burgelis, Moore, and Brostoff added as cosponsors.

Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (2024)

Rewriting the Story: Lived experiences of New Yorkers receiving cash assistance

New report shares findings from 32 in-depth interviews and a statewide survey that we conducted with New Yorkers who receive cash assistance, many of whom meet the federal government's definition of "deep poverty" and face serious barriers to economic mobility. This report sheds light on that lived reality by letting New Yorkers receiving cash assistance tell their own stories, both about what they are struggling with now, but also about what they have overcome and what their hopes are for the future.

University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab (2024)

Making Every Dollar Count: A Closer Look at Benefits Protection Strategies Implemented by Guaranteed Income Pilots in Illinois

The Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot (CRCP) was the largest guaranteed income pilot in the country by reach with 5,006 families enrolled. Not only was the reach of the pilot impressive, CRCP administrators have notably achieved more success protecting public benefits for participants than almost any other pilot at the time. The successful protection of public benefits for the Chicago pilot is in large part due to the groundwork done in Illinois and around the country by other pilots in previous years.