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In June we took time to celebrate the progress we’ve made in building a movement for a guaranteed income in this country. Guaranteed income is one of the most powerful tools available to fight poverty and make economic freedom – the freedom to make decisions about our lives free from coercion and domination – a reality. To learn more about how it works, watch Trusting Americans: Guaranteed Income’s Role in Ending Poverty. And for more on how we marked “GI June,” read The Guaranteed Income Movement Isn’t Just Improving Economic Conditions, It’s Building Power. |
Guaranteed Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
PROGRAM UPDATES
Over 300 Gather for Guaranteed Income Now Conference in Detroit
On June 11 and 12, Community Change and the Economic Security Project convened 300+ advocates, organizers, public officials, journalists, and others to discuss the growing power of the guaranteed income movement and its potential to reduce poverty, especially racialized and gendered poverty. Community Change Co-President Dorian Warren emceed the event and Co-President Lorella Praeli led a panel discussion with our partners Somos Un Pueblo Unido (New Mexico) and Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) on the organizing and base-building opportunities their GI campaigns leveraged. Explore the full event here. And click here for a deep-dive into how CCDC won its campaign to extend a program that provides cash to unhoused people in Denver.
“It feels great to be part of solutions”: 100,000 Florida Residents Win Medical Debt Relief
Medical debt is a crushing burden for millions in America, but in Orange County, Florida, community members have seized an opportunity to lift that burden from 100,000 residents. Working with our partner Central Florida Jobs With Justice (CFJWJ), organizers secured $4.5 million in ARPA funds to relieve county residents of medical debt. CFJWJ and allies now plan to leverage this win to get Medicaid expansion on the ballot in 2026. Read more about it in The Organizers Who Won Medical Debt Relief in Orlando.
Protecting our Childcare Wins From Private Equity
Private equity has undermined services and raised costs in healthcare, housing, and retail. Now it is starting to make inroads into the childcare sector, threatening to plunder public funding and shift care delivery away from community-based centers that have been led by women of color. On June 24, Community Change, National Women’s Law Center, and Open Markets Institute co-hosted “Children Before Profits ” in Washington, D.C., to spotlight the threat that private equity poses, as well as approaches to protect public resources for care services. Dorian Warren moderated a panel discussion on “The Threat of Private Equity: Lessons from Across the Economy.” Click here to browse the full event.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Before You Go
- President Biden announced new policies to keep families with mixed immigration status togetherand provide a path to citizenship for noncitizens who meet certain criteria. Co-President Lorella Praeli joined advocates and policymakers at the White House to celebrate the announcement. Read our statement here.
- This Juneteenth, Maven Collaborative’s Co-President Jhumpa Bhattachyra shared in Ms. Magazine why It’s Time We All Saw Ourselves in Black Women.
- Check out this interview in Inside Philanthropy with Trish Adobea Tchume, former Community Change staff member and founder of our transformative Power 50 leadership training program for women leaders of color.
