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From Pilots to Policy Change: Recommendations from SF’s Guaranteed Income Advisory Group

From Pilots to Policy Change: Recommendations from San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income Advisory Group
San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income Advisory Group was created to advise the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and appropriate City departments on various aspects of guaranteed income. The recommendations in this report examine how to move guaranteed income from pilots to policy in San Francisco, while maintaining and strengthening the City’s support for pilot development and implementation.
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Protecting Benefits in Guaranteed Income Pilots: Lessons Learned from the Abundant Birth Project

Protecting Benefits in Guaranteed Income Pilots: Lessons Learned from the Abundant Birth Project
This brief offers lessons learned about how to protect recipient benefits, particularly in California, through the lens of the Abundant Birth Project (ABP), a pilot program aimed at reducing birth health disparities and improving birth outcomes for Black and Pacific Islander pregnant women in San Francisco by providing $1,000 per month for six months during pregnancy and six months post-partum.
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Justice is Calling

Justice is Calling Front Page
Read our report on our first-in-the-nation work to put People Over Profits by making jail phone calls free and ending commissary store markups.
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Systemic Barriers to Banking the Unbanked

Systemic Barriers to Banking the Unbanked
Since founding the Bank On movement in 2006, the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) has found persistent disparities in banking access due to structural flaws in the financial system. This brief outlines four major systemic barriers to banking -- distrust of mainstream financial institutions, ChexSystems records, debt in collections and asset limits -- as well as opportunities to remove these barriers and increase banking access. Read more here.
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