Opinion | I'm the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. Our city is starting a guaranteed income program to fight back against poverty — and the rest of the US should take notice. By Jorge_Elorza,
"Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it."
Yet, in the intervening decades, the War on Poverty has instead become a war on the poor. Instead of providing low-income members of our community with the opportunity and stability that Johnson imagined, our society has largely mistaken our neighbors in need of help for the enemy itself. We must also be clear about who the front-line fighters in this war are: not politicians or policymakers, but the people living in poverty. As the front-line soldiers in this war, these individuals, families, and communities are the experts on the enemy, and what it will take to defeat it. We should listen carefully to the expertise they bring to the table, and make sure to provide the resources they tell us they need.
Moreover, over the course of the first year of the study, the number of recipients employed full-time grew 12%, compared to only 5% in a control group. With $500 per month, people were able to secure more reliable transportation to get to work, enroll their children in more consistent childcare, and take time off from their jobs to seek out better opportunities.
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