On November 14, 2023, Joseph Leitmann-Santa Cruz, CEO & executive director of 2022 grantee Capital Area Asset Builders, and Anne Vor der Bruegge, director of grants and initiatives at the Arlington Community Foundation, joined Many Hands members and guests for a webinar on guaranteed income programs. Many Hands Board member Lori Sostowski moderated the discussion. The recording of the webinar appears above. In addition, we have compiled the following readings and references for anyone who would like to explore this topic further.
Suggested Resources
Arlington Community Foundation
Articles
- Economic Security Project, “Momentum Grows for State Tax Credit Programs with Key Legislative Wins” (Economic Security Project, September 29, 2023)
- Greater Washington Community Foundation, Guaranteed Income: A Strategy to Support Economic Mobility (Greater Washington Community Foundation, March 16, 2023)
- Klara Alfonseca, “Where guaranteed income programs are growing in the US” (ABC News, June 21,
2003) - Megan Greenwell, “Universal Basic Income Has Been Tested Repeatedly. It Works. Will America Ever
Embrace It?” (Washington Post Magazine, October 24, 2022) - National Center for Children in Poverty, “Measuring Poverty in the United States” (2009)
Books
- Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America (New York: Crown, 2023)
Large-Scale Proposal
- Naomi Zewde, Kyle Strickland, Kelly Capatosto, Ari Glogower, Darrick Hamilton, A Guaranteed Income for the 21st Century (The New School Institute on Race and Political Economy, May 2021)
- Niskanen Center analysis of Zewde et al proposal
Pilot Programs
- Alexandria’s Recurring Income for Success and Equity (ARISE Project)
- Arlington’s Guarantee
- DC Flexible Rent Subsidy Program
- Let’s Go DMV
- MoCo Boost
- My Sister’s Place
- Colleen Grablick, “Guaranteed Income Program Comes to Prince George’s County” (dcist April 5, 2023)
- Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED)
Pilot Program Assessments
- Dr. Stacia West, Dr. Amy Castro Baker, Sukhi Samra, Erin Coltrera, Preliminary Analysis: SEED’s First Year (stocktondemonstration.org 2021)
- Josh Leopold, Mychal Cohen, Kassie Scott, Urban Institute, Maria Alva, Natnaell Mammo, Namita Mody, Ryan T. Moore, Sam Quinney, THELAB@DC, DC Flexible Rent Subsidy Program: Findings from the Program’s First Year (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research, October 2020)
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