“In September 2021, Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and the Cambridge Community Foundation launched the Cambridge Recurring Income for Success & Empowerment (RISE) guaranteed income (GI) pilot. Designed to address growing economic disparities and racial inequities, Cambridge RISE provided $500 recurring monthly payments for 18 months to 130 randomly selected single-caretaker households living below 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI). To maximize the impact of the monthly GI, the RISE team secured benefit waivers to protect housing and DTA public benefits for pilot participants.1 Launched during an unprecedented time of pandemic-related stressors and inflation, Cambridge RISE provided critical relief to single caregivers who were responding to added burdens related to remote work and school and childcare center closures.
The Center for Guaranteed Income Research (CGIR) conducted a mixed-methods Randomized Controlled Trial to evaluate Cambridge RISE and randomly assigned 130 caregivers to the treatment arm and 156 caregivers to the control arm.”
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