February 2021 newsletter
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Basic income in Stockton reduced income volatility, depression, and anxiety, and increased full-time employment [US]. The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration gave 125 recipients $500 per month for 24 months beginning in February 2019. Its first evaluation found positive effects on recipients over the first year compared to a control group.
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Cash assistance is more popular than paid family leave, subsidized childcare, wage subsidies, and baby bonds [US]. The survey of 2,000 Americans aged 18 to 50 found that cash assistance was especially popular among parents and people with income below $70,000.
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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) target households who forgo child income [Mexico]. Conditioning cash transfers on schooling targets families that lose income from child labor, offsetting efficiency loss from CCTs’ exclusion of some poor households. Researchers claim that the targeting justifies retaining a third of the budget for Progresa, a CCT program in rural Mexico, as conditional rather than unconditional.
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