Inside the Nation’s Largest Guaranteed Income Experiment

A dollar sign forms one of the columns of a stately building

From Abby Vesoulis, Abigail Abrams / TIME: A guaranteed income program is giving people the financial security to invest in themselves, avoid predatory loans, pay off debt, and improve their general quality of life. The lack of conditions on how the monthly cash payments should be utilized gives recipients the freedom to do what they need with the money.

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