Lessons from the largest study of guaranteed income in the U.S.

For three years, hundreds of people in Texas and Illinois got payments of $1,000 a month, no strings attached. It was the biggest study of its kind. And after eight years of research – the results are in. What did we learn?

Elizabeth Rhodes, research director at OpenResearch, a nonprofit research organization. She was the principal investigator on the guaranteed income study, which she’s been working on for 8 years now.

Stacia West, co-founder and director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also an associate professor of social work at the University of Tennessee.

Tomas Vargas Jr., he was part of a guaranteed income program in 2019.