Read previewThe city of Minneapolis is experimenting with a guaranteed basic income program, and the preliminary results are promising.
Minneapolis has provided $500 monthly payments with no strings attached to 200 low-income families for the last year.
Flint, Michigan — for example — recently opened enrollment for a basic income program for pregnant mothers, giving them a lump sum during pregnancy and $500 a month for their baby's first year of life.
In Iowa, two Republican state representatives are pushing legislation to ban basic income programs, Business Insider reported.
A lawmaker in Texas, meanwhile, called a newly launched basic income program in Harris County, which includes Houston, unconstitutional.
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