A guaranteed income is the answer to the affordability crisis
Every affordability plan in Washington works by trying to move prices. None of them put money in families’ hands. A guaranteed income does. It’s cash every month with no strings attached, and American cities and counties have been proving it works for nearly a decade.
Bills get paid
84% of participants said they could afford more or better child care.
People work more
A 19 percentage point increase in full-time employment by the end of the study period.
Households get steadier
The amount recipients were able to put into savings doubled.
Debt goes down
Nearly 30% fewer participants reported going into debt than the control group.
People take care of themselves
68.7% reported that their general health was better than when they enrolled.
Findings from independent evaluations of guaranteed income pilots in St. Louis, Santa Fe, Richmond, Atlanta, and Boulder.
Neighbors don’t have the same bills
The bill causing one household to make impossible choices isn’t necessarily the bill most impacting the family next door. Day care, a car payment, insulin. Cash reaches all of them, and more, because the household decides how to spend the money.
- 64%of voters support monthly cash payments between $500 and $1,000 for American adults.
- 250+cities and counties have run a guaranteed income pilot.
- 50,000+people have received a guaranteed income payment from pilots.