According to a report from the Boston Globe, a guaranteed basic income program seems to be a viable idea considering its positive reception from recipients in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The president of an organization called Mayors for Guaranteed Income told Fox News Digital that elected officials who pushback against a guaranteed basic income program are 'out of touch with what's really happening in their communities.
Mayors for Guaranteed Income is a coalition of 150 mayors pushing a pilot program, offering low income participants up to $1,000 a month with no strings attached. The group has pushed GBI pilot programs that have been adopted by some municipalities across the country. One city to implement a GBI program is Austin, Texas, which launched a pilot program in 2022. A recent survey showed that the city's guaranteed income program helped address the problem of housing insecurity in the city.
No city can do a guaranteed income at scale because we can't deficit spend. A guaranteed income at scale has to be done by the federal government, much like we saw with the child tax credit,' Tubbs said. 'And that's been an argument we've been making the whole time, but, we can't wait for the federal government. And oftentimes we have to inspire and push the federal government to act,' Tubbs concluded.
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