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How public policy has and hasn’t increased equity for Black Mainers
- February 27, 2024
- Maine Center for Economic Policy
- James Myall
Public Services and Employment
Publications
Tax breaks for companies that kill jobs
- February 1, 2024
- Louisiana Budget Project
- Jamie Carson
Proposed Tax Reductions Would Deeply Diminish Revenues for Public Services
- January 31, 2024
- New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute
- Phil Sletten
Guaranteed Income: Increasing Employment and Helping Families Thrive
- December 18, 2023
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Javier Rojo, MPP
A report on a recently concluded statewide guaranteed income pilot program with 330 immigrant families demonstrated unrestricted cash assistance programs allowed for low-wage earners to pursue better jobs, increase their educational levels, and improve other critical outcomes for their children.
The 18-month guaranteed income (GI) pilot program was created in 2022 to address poverty and economic security for low-income, mixed-immigration status families and workers in New Mexico. Immigrant families were chosen for the pilot because polling showed these families struggled significantly more than the general population during the pandemic because of numerous exclusions from the country’s safety net; these exclusions were due to lack of a social security number even if the household had U.S.-citizen children.