Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis was a test case for something much larger: how far federal power could be pushed inside American cities. 👌 piece by @jehaby.bsky.social and mayor Jacob Frey: www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
👉 Read the full brief at EconomicSecurityProject.org
#GuaranteedIncome #EconomicSecurity #Workforce #Policy #DataDriven
✨ Bottom Line: Guaranteed income isn’t a work disincentive — it functions as real employment infrastructure, giving people the financial stability to seek better work, invest in skills, and participate more fully in the labor market.
🤝 GI supports deeper economic mobility
Beyond work rates, GI has meaningful impacts on job satisfaction, training participation, and the ability to balance caregiving with employment — including more people enrolling in education/certification programs because they had the financial space to do so.
📈 Cash increases financial resilience and agency
In Los Angeles’s BIG:LEAP, participants who could cover a $400 emergency doubled after a year of GI. In Stockton, GI participants experienced significantly less income volatility, helping enable consistent employment and better long-term planning.
• attend job interviews
• take time for training or internships
• shift toward careers with better benefits
• even start their own businesses — up to five times more often than control groups.
💼 GI is employment infrastructure
Rather than discouraging work, direct cash gives people the stability and flexibility to:
📊 Guaranteed income increases employment and job quality
Across California’s largest pilots — including Stockton, Los Angeles (BIG:LEAP), and Oakland, GI Program participants obtained full-time jobs at up to double the rate of control groups — and pursued higher-quality jobs at 3x the rate.
💡 A fresh brief from @economicsecurityproject.org shows what the evidence is actually telling us about guaranteed income (GI) and work — and it debunks common myths with real data from California’s pilots:
economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
Guaranteed income + employment. Great brief on what the data shows from the @economicsecurityproject.org team. economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
Interesting event 🚨 at Cal on 3/10 besi.berkeley.edu/event/what-d...
Hegseth’s reckless demands are dangerous and unethical. I’m grateful to Dario and the team at @Anthropic for resisting the threats and pressures to give Hegseth unchecked power to surveil us or start a war www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
4 key expenses — groceries, housing, health care and transportation — have eaten up a larger fraction of Americans’ spending in recent years, leaving people feeling squeezed even under supposedly good economic conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The State of the Union is in less than 2 weeks.
The president will claim he’s lowered costs—but many of his policies have done the opposite.
As we approach #SOTU, we’ll be comparing this administration’s rhetoric against the reforms our economy actually needs for citizens to have a #GoodLife. 🧵
Love is an action. Immigrants deserve safety, dignity, and joy—today and always. Join me in taking action to ensure we protect and stand up for immigrants. #ToImmigrantsWithLove #IStandWithImmigrants
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Young voters are part of Trump’s coalition that is showing signs of fraying ahead of the coming midterm elections, where history is already against the party that controls the White House, and the GOP has the barest of control in Congress.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Teri Olle, VP at Economic Security California, underscores the urgent stakes of AI policy, asking who gets to decide what this technology means for people, and who it will serve.
✍️ @nathanheller.bsky.social in the @newyorker.com
🔗 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
just want to reiterate that literally every D senator voted to claw back this money. (yes, including fetterman.) this is very much the mainstream view in the party right now.
Today, we honor the birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt—a leader who guided the nation through crisis with bold vision and unwavering resolve.
While it may be his 144th birthday, FDR’s ideas still speak to our current economic and political moment. 1/6 🧵
13/13 This approach is working. States don’t have to wait for Washington to bring down costs—they can lead.
12/ Whether it’s insulin, groceries, or broadband, public options can step in when markets are broken and give families real choices again.
11/ Public options offer an alternative to relying solely on private industries that have consolidated power, limited competition, and driven prices.
10/ It’s another example of how public options can help make life more affordable, especially in communities that have been written off by corporate power.
9/ In Illinois, the state recently broke ground on the nation’s first municipally owned grocery store in Venice, stepping in where the private market walked away, and making clear that access to food isn’t optional.
8/ Governments across the country are recognizing the power of public options to restore fairness to our economy.
7/ Our electeds’ decision to choose a different path forward and invest in public options to make life-saving medicine affordable is a big deal worth celebrating.
6/ CalRx’s new public option couldn’t have come at a better time. With Congressional Republicans cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, millions of families are facing enormous healthcare costs, while the costs of other essentials like groceries, utilities, and housing rise.
5/ For people living with diabetes, this means no more rationing this life-saving medication or being forced to decide which bill can wait until next month.
