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Alaska Gives Cash To Citizens Every Year. The Rest Of The U.S. Could Too.

David Dayen

August 28, 2018 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

In Alaska, a highly popular version of Basic Income gives residents between $1000 and $3000 a month. Although this wealth fund, and similar ones in countries like Norway, have been considered, critics argue that it wouldn't work in an American context.

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Local Nepali government sending a message by paying families that have baby girls

Yam Kumari Kandel

August 28, 2018 |

Public Radio International |

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Response Location: Nepal

The “Save the Daughter” campaign is helping families in Nepal with the economic struggle they face when mother’s give birth to females. That’s because, families with girls have to pay the wedding dowry, a cumbersome expense for low income families. The government is giving funds to families that have a second daughter to go towards their education. So far, 40 women have received funds. “This will create an environment for families to happily accept two daughters,” Karki says

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State-sponsored friendship: the city using flatshares for refugee integration

Fergus Peace

August 16, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Belgium, Antwerp

CURANT is a co-housing program launched by the city of Antwerp in Belgium, meant to support unaccompanied children who become legal adults. Participants are offered subsidized housing and are co-housed with a buddy, who is a Belgian resident.

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A Blueprint for Human-Centered Change

Zack Quaintance

June 01, 2018 |

Government Technology |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

In Michigan, private design firm Civilla successfully pitched a human-centered redesign of the state's unwieldy and redundant public benefits form. By highlighting and emphasizing the experience that applicants had with the old firm, Civilla convinced the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to make a change, and the new form is now 22% more likely to be completed.

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Basic Income Is Already Transforming Life and Work in a Postindustrial Canadian City

Jordan Pearson

April 23, 2018 |

Motherboard |

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Response Location: Canada, Hamilton, Ontario

A pilot program in Hamilton, Ontario tests the viability of a universal basic income. While bureaucratic red tape and critics from both political sides limit the enrollment in the program, citizens partaking in the pilot note that support in the form of cash keep them healthy and able to avoid living in poverty.

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Upfront investments can ward off 'horrible outcomes'

Patty Machelor

March 02, 2018 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

In El Paso County, Colorado, the economic stress of poverty is recognized as a precursor to many instances of child abuse and neglect. Child safety caseworkers and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) providers collaborate to address some of the underlying issues - like lack of access to child care, housing, and transportation - that increase chances for neglect, a model that has helped families ultimately get off of welfare and into better financial situations.

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Since 2007, Peru has saved more than 350,000 kids from being stunted

Jack Graham

February 15, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Peru, San Isidro

Peru formerly had one of the highest rates of stunting in South America, with chronic malnutrition affecting more than 1 in 4 children under five. Thanks to results-based budgeting and a government-wide commitment to fighting child poverty, the country has halved that rate, improving the long-term health and cognitive development of its youngest citizens.

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Safe, happy and free: does Finland have all the answers?

Jon Henley

February 12, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Finland

In the past 150 years, Finland has gone from famine-ridden to renowned as one of the world’s strongest democracies with leading global rankings in health, education, and innovation. Culture is key to this transformation. Finns are both self-reliant and highly cooperative with a long history of putting independence, freedom, and opportunity for all people front and center in policymaking.

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Healthier kids? Just hand their families cash.

Adriana Lleras-Muney

January 10, 2018 |

Politico |

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Response Location: United States

A study of a 1910 cash-based welfare program in the United States reveals the positive lifelong results of giving families cash to reduce poverty and prevent the long-term effects associated with it. Providing cash for families with children once resulted in a better rate of return in the form of better nutrition, higher socio-economic status and longer life expectancy. Currently, the government provides the "deserving poor" with welfare benefits such as health coverage and food aid but recipients must meet the strict requirements for eligibility.

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Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by Government

Issie Lapowsky

November 12, 2017 |

Wired |

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Response Location: United States, Cherokee, North Carolina

In North Carolina, the Cherokee tribe members receive cash payments every year from the revenue of local casinos. Native American reservations have one of the highest poverty rates in the country, but this payment has shown a positive impact on children's lives. As inequality increases, tech companies are advocating for "universal basic income," using the Cherokee community as a case study. More research needs to take place in order to define what the universal basic income will be, how people will respond to it, and what will be the overall effects.

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