AMERICANS are in line to get checks worth $1,000 through a program designed to ease the rising cost of living.
Payments are made the the entire year as part of the program and currently supports hundreds of people.
Americans are in line to get checks worth $1,000 through a program designed to ease the rising cost of livingGettyBOOST is a guaranteed income program designed to bridge the gap between financial aid, wages, and the cost of living.
The acronym stands for Building Outstanding Opportunities for Students to Thrive, and is primarily targeted at young people in education, per the website.
BOOST provides provides $1,000 monthly for 12 months in unconditional cash payments.
The program closures of four colleges in The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD).
These are East LA College, LA City College, LA Trade-Technical College, and LA Southwest College.
The cohort of students being given the cash stands at 251, and over the course of the program, a total of $3 million will be given out to students.
BOOST has a particular focus on those pursuing careers in clinical, allied, or behavioral health.
BOOST’S AMBITION
As program, it is highly ambitious, and is the largest guaranteed income program of its kind in the US.
It is also the first to incorporate a Randomized Control Trial (RCT).
This refers to a system in which participants are randomly assigned to different groups, typically including an experimental group and a control, group.
It allows researchers to determine the success through isolating certain characteristics selected and formed in each of the groups.
BOOST operates with two groups, the Treatment Group and the Control Group.
The Treatment Group is given the $1,000, starting from November 2024 through October 2025.
Those receiving the payments are not told how to spend the money, and there are no employment requirements.
How does Guaranteed Income work?
Guaranteed Income and Universal Basic Income programs have taken off in popularity recently.
After the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan of 2021 sent stimulus money to local governments, dozens began testing guaranteed income (GI) systems.
The specifics vary, but GI typically involves payouts to people with low incomes. Unlike traditional welfare, there are no job requirements, drug tests, or other strings attached.
Some have pushed for a Universal Basic Income (UBI), which would go to everyone regardless of how much money they make at work. Alaska has used a similar system since the 1970s.
Proponents say this alleviates poverty while incentivizing work, unlike classic welfare, which cuts benefits from people who begin earning “too much” money to qualify.
Opponents argue such a system is too expensive to function on a large scale and suggest Americans should avoid becoming reliant on government money.
With some cities heralding the success of GI programs, some Republican-led states have moved to ban them. States like Texas and Iowa, for example, have undermined major spending plans by pushing against GI.
Those randomly assigned to the Control Group will not receive the monthly payments.
BOOST randomly assigns at least 200 students to the Treatment Group and at least 350 to the Control Group.
Instead they will be invited to participate in paid research activities, including surveys and interviews. At least 200 eligible students bare randomly assigned to the
Through this mixed method, led by a control trial conducted through the University of Pennsylvania, BOOST can provide useful insights.
BOOST looks into the lives of its participating students to see how it can better improve its programming and future efforts to support them.
The program is mostly privately funded via groups like The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the Young Adults Forward Fund.
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