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  • Frozen Assets

    January 01, 2019 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    In Alaska, the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program, which is meant to provide $1600 to every resident who has lived in Alaska for at least a year, has been proven to reduce poverty and increase quality of life; the program has even been credited for Alaska's status as the state with the second highest income equality in the country. The Fund is meant to disperse wealth from the state's natural resources - but despite it's overall success, decreasing profits from the oil and gas industries has put the Fund in peril as lawmakers cut payments instead of implementing income taxes to generate revenue.

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

    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

    August 28, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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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

    August 16, 2018 |

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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

    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

    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'

    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

    February 15, 2018 |

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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?

    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.

    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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