Guaranteed Income: Advancing Guaranteed Income Through Local Narrative
About this Sprint
- Across the United States, prosperity and economic well-being are not broadly shared - nearly 40 percent of Americans live in or close to poverty
- A guaranteed income, which provides residents with unconditional cash transfers, can increase economic stability
- In the first Guaranteed Income Sprint, cities explored the research behind and value of a guaranteed income, the Mayors for a Guaranteed Income network, and the City of Stockton’s experiences in piloting a guaranteed income initiative
- Building off of the first Sprint, this second Guaranteed Income Sprint focuses on the role of narrative building in advancing a guaranteed income project
What you'll learn
- Understand the need for narrative building that centers racial and gender equity, lived experience, and the existing literature
- Understand resources and supporting data and evidence for guaranteed income
- Learn how to build and leverage a storytelling cohort based on best practices from other cities
- Understand why certain messaging is best to connect with the intended audience
- Understand how, as a coalition city, to contribute to the larger guaranteed income narrative on state and federal levels, centering racial and gender equity
Sprint partners
- Lead Partner: Mayors for a Guaranteed Income
Background on recent guaranteed income projects and the role of cities in advancing them
Resources:
- Fireside Chat: Former Mayor Michael Tubbs and Mayor Melvin Carter
- Carter and Tubbs, How GI Makes Good on a Promise to Black America
- Carter and Tubbs, One More Stimulus Check Won't be Enough
- Carter, Garcetti, and Tubbs, Most Americans Support Guaranteed Income
- Tubbs et al., MLK Had a Dream of Guaranteed Income
- St. Paul People's Prosperity Pilot, Bright Futures Podcast
- NBC Nightly News, Segment with Stockton GI Recipient
Approaches to shifting the narratives that shape our policy, politics, and culture
Lessons learned on maximizing the impact of a storytelling cohort and creating effective external communications
Resources:
A closer look at the People's Prosperity Pilot in St. Paul, MN
Resources:
- Guaranteed Income Sprint, Week 5 Slides
- Springboard for the Arts, Guaranteed Minimum Income Pilot
- Springboard for the Arts, Art-Train (Training and Technical Assistance)
- Springboard for the Arts, Find an Artist Toolkit
- Springboard for the Arts, Handbook for Artists
- Ricardo Morales, The Soil is More Important than the Seeds
- Income Movement