CRNY GI Working Group Recommendations Report (2024)

Recommendations from Creatives Rebuild New York’s Guaranteed Income for Artists Working Group

To process what has been learned to date and align around strategic opportunities for moving forward, CRNY convened two conversations with peer administrators of programs providing unrestricted cash to artists.

Economic Security Project (2024)

A Window of Opportunity to Frame the Guaranteed Income Narrative

This resource shows how to engage a wider range of stakeholders by 1.) identifying groups that could be supportive or persuaded and 2.) crafting the messages and messengers that would…

Power of Cash Narrative Grant Showcase

Learn about how five local organizations utilize narrative change interventions to build positive community awareness around guaranteed income.

Maine Equal Justice (2024)

Build Hope: Post-Secondary Support for Parents with Low Incomes in Maine

Maine Equal Justice recently released their report on their Build HOPE project. It connects income solutions/CTC/guaranteed income work. This project has provided direct income support (flexible funding of up to $2000 a year) to about 500 parent students pursuing postsecondary education as a pathway out of poverty. The Build HOPE project also included research to explore: (1) gaps in current programs/supports for low-income parents pursuing education and trainings; and (2) the value and impact of additional flexible income for these low-income families.

Springboard to Opportunities (2024)

It Take a Nation: A Federal Policy Agenda to Ensure Income Security for Parents and Children in the South

Springboard to Opportunity released a new report created in partnership with the Center for Economic and Policy Research called It Takes a Nation. Guided by the voices of Springboard families and utilizing their definition of a prosperous and successful life, this report traces the history of economic security policies within modern US history, noting the way that state-based policies – particularly in the South – have failed to provide the means necessary for families to earn an adequate income. Using the original provisions of the American Families Plan, which ultimately failed to pass by just one vote in the Senate, and the groundbreaking work and findings of our own Magnolia Mother’s Trust, It Takes a Nation proposes a federal plan for family economic security.

Camp Harbor View (January 2024)

Direct Cash for a Better Boston

In partnership with UpTogether, CHV launched a direct cash pilot in 2021, selecting fifty families via lottery from the CHV community to receive an unconditional $583 per month. With this two-year pilot program, Camp Harbor View joined a burgeoning national guaranteed income movement. In this report learn stories and highlights from recipients.

Abt Associates (November 2023)

“My kids deserve the world”: How children in the Southeast benefit from guaranteed income

This brief is woven from the stories shared by 67 parents and guardians (63 mothers, 2 fathers, 2 grandmothers, whom we call “parents” for ease of reading) participating in city-led 12-month guaranteed income (GI) pilot programs in the Southeast—in Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville, and Shreveport.

Journal of Urban Health (2023)

Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial

A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial in Stockton, CA, USA enrolled 131 individuals to the treatment condition and 200 to control to receive a guaranteed income from February 2019 to January 2021. This study provides causal evidence of positive health and financial outcomes for recipients of guaranteed income. As income volatility is related to poor health outcomes, provision of a guaranteed income is a potentially powerful public health intervention.

Columbia Journal Of Race And Law Article (2022)

Building a Guaranteed Income to End the “Child Welfare” System

It is time for policemakers to reimagine and dismantle the child welfare system. This Article provides background on disparities in the child welfare system and argues that policymakers have used the child welfare system to police poverty and regulate Black families. It asserts that poverty presents a significant risk factor for neglect of children, that poverty should be the focus of policymakers, and discusses economic empowerment through Mother's Outreach Network.

Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care (January 2024)

Financial support policies as a mechanism to reduce child welfare involvement

In this review, the authors (1) highlight evidence linking poverty to child welfare involvement; (2) discuss literature on the association between financial support policies and reductions in child welfare exposure; (3) propose potential pathways through which financial support policies may reduce child welfare involvement; and (4) consider opportunities for pediatric providers to support anti-poverty programs and policies with the potential to reduce child welfare involvement.

Columbia’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy (2023)

Starting Sooner: Should Cash Payments Begin During Pregnancy?

Columbia’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy released a policy brief to summarize the research on the potential impact of cash delivered during pregnancy on birth and longer-term outcomes.

Baby's First Years (2023)

Baby’s First Years Publication List

Baby’s First Years shows a relatively modest, no-strings attached income boost for low-income mothers significantly impacts their capacity to parent, as well as their children’s brain development. A number of papers have already been published from this study that can be found here.