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GiveDirectly recipient Rispa, in 2014. She used her cash transfers to improve her farm and add to her livestock.

GiveDirectly’s No Strings Attached Charity, Now With Unfiltered Feedback

The innovative charity's latest experiment: publishing all the feedback it receives from cash recipients instantly, without editing.
By Brady Dale
OAK BROOK, IL - MAY 25: Demonstrators calling for an increase in the minimum wage to $15-dollars-per-hour march to McDonald's corporate headquarters during a protest on May 25, 2016 in Oak Brook, Illinois. McDonald's annual shareholders meeting is scheduled to be held in Oak Brook tomorrow.

Y Combinator and GiveDirectly Move on Basic Income

This is the only way a universal wage will even get a pilot in the USA.
By Brady Dale
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 15: A McDonalds employee works in a restaurant on the morning when thousands of people took to the street to demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour on April 15, 2015 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. In what organizers are calling the biggest ever mobilization of workers in the U.S., thousands of people across the country staged protests in front of businesses that are paying some of their workers the minimum wage. Home care workers, and employees at Walmart and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage.

Y Combinator Wants to Test Giving Poor People a Basic Income

The elite accelerator has announced a seed round for social policy.
By Brady Dale
Chris Hughes

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By Phillip Light
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