Daniela Gutierrez, with her 6 month old son, Jeremiah, at their apartment in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan on Dec. 17, 2021.
One woman bought a special highchair for her son, who shows signs of cerebral palsy. Another has been saving money for an expected battle with her landlord. A mother of two on West 145th Street is finding the regular infusion to be a lifesaver when food stamps run out. The central idea of the guaranteed income movement is that the most effective treatment for poverty is to simply give people money and let them decide what to do with it, rather than impose the rules, limitations and bureaucratic hoops that come with most safety net programs.
For the first 100 families in the project, half get $500 per month and half get $1,000 per month, for three years. The families in the second phase are receiving $1,000 monthly for 18 months, then $500 monthly for 18 months. A control group of families receives no money. Today, more than 35 guaranteed income pilot projects are underway, in at least 17 states, distributing more than $25 million a year to over 7,000 families, according to the Economic Security Project, which advocates for direct cash programs.
There is plenty of need, though. More than 1 in 4 Black children in New York City live in poverty, as do nearly 1 in 3 Hispanic children, according to the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York City. For Maureen Gardner, 35, the Bridge Project came along when she was six months pregnant, not working and had just learned that the woman she had been subletting her Harlem apartment from apparently had been pocketing her $1,500 rent checks.
For Matos, the Bridge Project gave her the luxury of time. She quit her job as a program aide at the Harlem Children’s Zone in October to prepare to start nursing school next week.
No strings attached? Really just like what they said about the stimulus some of us all got monthly and now have to pay it back
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