Uncategorized – ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç Send money directly to people in need. Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:22:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Uncategorized – ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç 32 32 Additional resources for U.S. families impacted by COVID-19 /additional-resources-for-u-s-families-impacted-by-covid-19 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:32:49 +0000 /?p=2352 Providers (formerly Fresh EBT) – our operational partner for the U.S. COVID-19 program – compiled a non-exhaustive list of resources for people across the United States who are looking for support during this time, from food assistance to educational materials for children. We wish we could provide cash to everyone across the globe who needs it right now, but the difficult reality is that the…

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]]> Let them decide – Cash in the News /let-them-decide-cash-in-the-news Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:14:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=6576850163337096168 A story about G​ive​D​irectly​’s ​universal basic income initiative came out last week, airing multiple times on All Things Considered with a feature on the front page of NPR’s homepage. ​The piece was the first in a series about unconditional cash transfers​ and their potential to end extreme poverty. Elsewhere, a new tech founder joined the list of basic income supporters…

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]]> Our main goal is to learn – Cash in the News /our-main-goal-is-to-learn-cash-in-the-news Tue, 01 Aug 2017 01:38:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=3565073031916224447 Basic income featured prominently in the news this week with an op-ed on the shortcomings of the Finnish study in The New York Times, coverage from Vox dispelling common critiques of basic income, and a handful of articles about Silicon Valley’s rising interest in basic income. ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç’s CFO Joe Huston also spoke with Brazilian magazine Época Negócios about our UBI study in Kenya. Elsewhere…

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]]> A world where 8 men own as much wealth as 3.6 billion people – Cash in the News /a-world-where-8-men-own-as-much-wealth-as-3-6-billion-people-cash-in-the-news Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:27:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=298491154474236932 Comic Relief, a large British charity, announced their support of ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç and cash transfers this week in a blog post on the topic. Additionally, our co-founder Paul Niehaus was featured in news pieces on KPBS-San Diego and in a survey of basic income studies in Scientific American. Prof. Tavneet Suri, one of the principal investigators in our basic income experiment…

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]]> Not everybody wants a goat – Cash in the News /not-everybody-wants-a-goat-cash-in-the-news Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:39:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=1864453478695760303 In a 30-minute documentary, ABC Australia profiled ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç’s work in Kenya. They spoke at length with both Caroline Teti, our External Relations Director in Kenya, and Mitch Riley, our Regional Director. They also featured a range of ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç recipients, from one who used his transfer to start a band, to another who is growing hundreds of eucalyptus trees. 1.

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]]> Allocating the capital – Cash in the News /allocating-the-capital-cash-in-the-news Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:41:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=4403707166143908950 In an interview with Hamilton Nolan, ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç’s co-founder discusses the current state of the debate around basic income and the details of our experiment. Elsewhere, ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç’s basic income experiment was referenced in Fortune, Business Insider, and IndiaSpend, and ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç was mentioned in The Washington Post as part of a broader shift toward cash transfers in the aid sector.

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]]> A broad swath of society – Cash in the News /a-broad-swath-of-society-cash-in-the-news Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:59:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=5770570095325871431 In the last week, Hawaii’s lawmakers started discussing basic income and The Economist published a piece on Finland’s basic income experiment. ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç’s CFO, Joe Huston, spoke at the North American Basic Income Guarantee conference in New York, where he described in detail our own experiment, as well as some of the early qualitative results we’ve gathered from our pilot village.

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]]> Cost-effectiveness landscape – Cash in the News /cost-effectiveness-landscape-cash-in-the-news Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:33:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=316277065052310598 At Oxford, co-founder Paul Niehaus talked with Stanford Professor Jim Ferguson about the future of cash transfers in a conversation that ranged from ethnography to economics. Sorosh Tavokoli, one of ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç’s donors, wrote a thoughtful piece on Medium on why, after five months of research, he decided that giving cash directly was one of the most cost-effective ways to help people in need.

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]]> A powerful weapon in the arsenal – Cash in the News /a-powerful-weapon-in-the-arsenal-cash-in-the-news Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:33:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=5407595463619409366 In a long, thoughtful article on basic income, Jesse Walker describes the idea’s history from Thomas Paine, through President Nixon, to ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç and current debates. In a piece in Brookings, John McArthur, referencing ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç, focuses on basic income and developing countries and proposes that 66 countries could eliminate poverty with a simple basic income. GIVEDIRECTLY IN THE NEWS 1.

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]]> The time has come to find out – Cash in the News /the-time-has-come-to-find-out-cash-in-the-news Wed, 31 May 2017 19:29:00 +0000 /blog_post.php?id=1785139540304394735 This week one of ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÉç’s co-founders, Michael Faye, appeared on LinkedIn’s podcast, and all five of our basic income principal investigators co-authored an essay for LinkedIn’s featured weekend essay. Both pieces centered on how more evidence is needed in the basic income debate. Elsewhere, Mark Zuckerberg expressed support for basic income in his Harvard commencement and a new study from…

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