by Chris Hughes
176 The average move over state lines costs more than $5,000: Williams, “Hidden Costs of Moving.”
176 USA Today reported the story of Cecil Euseary: Lenahan et al., “Stories of People Living on Minimum Wage.”
178 there is little evidence to suggest that cash transfers increase rates of substance abuse: Velasquez-Manoff, “What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?”
178 a World Bank review of 44 studies of drug and alcohol usage: Evans and Popova, “Do the Poor Waste Transfers?”
179 “We found no evidence that this effect fades away”: Shultz, “Bit of Cash.”
About the Author
Lisa Berg
CHRIS HUGHES is the co-founder of the Economic Security Project, a network of policymakers, academics, and technologists working to end poverty and rebuild the middle class through a guaranteed income. He co-founded Facebook as a student at Harvard and later led Barack Obama’s digital organizing campaign for president. Hughes was the owner and publisher of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016. He lives in New York’s Greenwich Village with his family.
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Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
1: How It Happens
2: The Dismantling of the American Dream
3: Kenya & Back
4: The Precariat
5: A Guaranteed Income for Working People
6: Worthwhile Work
7: Untethered Idealism
8: Everybody Likes a Tax Credit
9: What We Owe One Another
Afterword
What You Can Do
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
About the Author
Copyright
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e-ISBN 9781250196613
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First Edition: February 2018