Media & Press
Direct cash assistance programs and policies including guaranteed income, child tax credits and baby bonds are increasingly spotlighted in media outlets and podcast shows.
Guaranteed Income
It’s Basic
Blowback Productions (2023)
The Denver basic income experiment
The Indicator, NPR (2024)
Could Universal Basic Income Help End Poverty?
Consider This, NPR (2024)
The history of universal basic income: The concept of UBI has been debated for centuries
Business Insider (March 2025)
Montgomery adopts guaranteed basic income program to battle poverty
WSFA News 12 (February 2025)
Universal basic income vs. welfare: How UBI compares to safety nets
Business Insider (January 2025)
Denver Basic Income Project shares results after one year of cash payments to homeless Denverites
The Denver Gazette (June 2024)
Where guaranteed income programs are growing in the US
ABC News (June 2023)
Child Tax Credits
A Safety Net for American Children
The Daily, The New York Times (2021)
The Child Tax Credit: One Small Step Toward Universal Basic Income?
The Political Scene, The New Yorker (2021)
What is the child tax credit for 2024?
CNBC (February 2025)
America Already Knows How to Address Child Poverty
TIME (October 2023)
How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It
The New Yorker (September 2023)
How We Can Make Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Ending Poverty A Reality
TIME (January 2023)
We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong
VOX (November 2023)
Baby Bonds
Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas
Planet Money, NPR (2024)
Are baby bonds a good investment?
The Weeds, VOX (2024)
‘Baby Bonds’ Could Help End Poverty in America
Your Money Briefing, Wall Street Journal (2023)
Can baby bonds reduce childhood poverty? California thinks so
The Guardian (February 2025)
The Architects of ‘Baby Bonds’ Are Finally Seeing Some Momentum
TIME (February 2024)
Mass. eyes ‘baby bonds’ to help close the racial wealth gap
Boston Globe (December 2023)