{"id":132975,"date":"2024-07-22T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=132975"},"modified":"2024-07-22T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T12:26:01","slug":"results-of-one-of-the-biggest-studies-on-guaranteed-income-undertaken-in-il-and-tx-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=132975","title":{"rendered":"Results of One of the Biggest Studies on Guaranteed Income, Undertaken in IL and TX, Are In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/07\/study-guaranteed-income-program-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 19th<\/a>: &#8220;For eight years, researchers have been quietly putting together the largest, most comprehensive study on programs that give people a monthly stream of cash \u2014 no strings attached. Over time, does that income transform people\u2019s lives?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openresearchlab.org\/studies\/unconditional-cash-study\/study\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is now in<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Put together by OpenResearch, the nonprofit lab founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the study followed 3,000 participants from 2020 to 2023, creating a sweeping portrait of the effects of guaranteed income programs. More than 150 such programs have been running since 2018, serving 50,000-plus recipients \u2014 often\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2021\/02\/guaranteed-income-pilots-lifeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low-income women<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/02\/01\/dc-cash-payments-mothers-pilot-program\/?tpcc=NL_Marketing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">parents<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/04\/guaranteed-income-program-families-financial-stability-well-being\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people of color<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study split the participants into two groups: 1,000 people received $1,000 a month for three years and the rest received $50 a month to serve as a control group. (Researchers decided to pay the second group a nominal amount to help them stay engaged with the project.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The groups, all made up of people ages 21 to 40, were drawn from rural, suburban and urban counties in Illinois and Texas with average annual household incomes of about $30,000, creating a representative sample of young low-income Americans. Each group was surveyed monthly and annually, and 155 people also underwent in-depth interviews once or twice a year. On average, 97 percent of participants completed the surveys.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th: &#8220;For eight years, researchers have been quietly putting together the largest, most comprehensive study on programs that give people a monthly stream of cash \u2014 no strings attached. Over time, does that income transform people\u2019s lives?&nbsp; The data&nbsp;is now in. Put together by OpenResearch, the nonprofit lab founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132976,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132975\/revisions\/132976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}