Leaders of the guaranteed income movement see San Francisco as the perfect place to test its efficacy. The City is both a laboratory of new ideas, as well as a bastion of significant income and wealth inequality.
An increasing number of programs aimed at guaranteeing income for certain populations — such as pregnant women — have sprouted up in and around San Francisco in recent years.
The Guaranteed Income Advisory Group was established through legislation sponsored by former Supervisor Matt Haney in 2021. Its members — a cross-section of experts and people who have lived in poverty — presented its recommendations to the Board of Supervisors earlier this month, and the board endorsed them in a resolution this week.
Beyond existing programs, the working group is pushing The City to develop “structural, sustainable, scalable strategies” that, potentially, could greatly expand the prevalence of universal income in San Francisco and beyond. Miracle Messages launched a pilot program, Miracle Money, that provided 14 recipients, nine of whom were experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area, with $500 a month. At the end of the six-month program, two-thirds had secured stable housing, according to the nonprofit.
In California, Stockton provided a random selection of residents with $500 a month for two years. A study released in 2021, which tracked the first year of the program from 2019 to 2020, found that the 125 residents — all of whom were at or below the area median income — were more than twice as likely to transition from part-time to full-time work.
The Abundant Birth Project, for example, was launched in 2020 and provides pregnant Black and Pacific Islander mothers — who, along with their children, on average are far more likely to face adverse health outcomes than their white counterparts — with $1,000 per month, six months before and after giving birth.
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