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
Newark’s ‘guaranteed income’ program draws praise
NJ Spotlight News (2025)
The Denver basic income experiment
The Indicator, NPR (2024)
Could Universal Basic Income Help End Poverty?
Consider This, NPR (2024)
Is America Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?
Better Life Lab, Slate (2022)
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Yes, Cash Grants Do Help Families in Poverty
Bloomberg (September 2025)
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A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Workiates poverty. It’s not complicated.
The Wall Street Journal (September 2025)
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Guaranteed Basic Income uplifts families and communities
The Baltimore Sun (August 2025)
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Yes, Cash Transfers Work: Money alleviates poverty. It’s not complicated.
The Atlantic (August 2025)
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NJ’s Largest City Gave 400 People ‘Guaranteed Income’ – Here’s What Happened
Newark,NJ Patch (June 2025)
Child Tax Credits
NJ could dramatically cut child poverty with cash payments, report says
NJ Spotlight News (2025)
Lawmakers push for refundable child tax credit
WSFB 3 (2025)
How Parents Can Maximize Their Tax Refund
Your Money Briefing, Wall Street Journal (2025)
Child Tax Credit Expansion, Ukraine Update, UMG Pulls Artists From TikTok
Up First from NPR, NPR (2024)
Without Expanded Child Tax Credit, Families Are Sliding Back Into Poverty
Consider This, NPR (2023)
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Freedom from Want: An Economic Guarantee for New Jersey’s Kids
New Jersey Policy Perspective (September 2025)
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What is the child tax credit for 2024?
CNBC (February 2025)
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America Already Knows How to Address Child Poverty
TIME (October 2023)
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How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It
The New Yorker (September 2023)
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How We Can Make Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Ending Poverty A Reality
TIME (January 2023)
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We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong
VOX (November 2023)
Baby Bonds
A baby bonds bonanza
The Indicator, NPR (2025)
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)
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The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
The Guardian (September 2025)
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Can baby bonds reduce childhood poverty? California thinks so
The Guardian (February 2025)
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The Architects of ‘Baby Bonds’ Are Finally Seeing Some Momentum
TIME (February 2024)
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Mass. eyes ‘baby bonds’ to help close the racial wealth gap
Boston Globe (December 2023)