Ann Arbor guaranteed income program eased strain but didn’t shift food, housing insecurity

By: Katherine Dailey

Outlets: Michigan Advance

Published: February 16, 2026

Words: 524

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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In December, Ann Arbor’s Guaranteed Income to Grow program sent its last payment to the 100 participants in the city’s two-year pilot program. Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, which designed and implemented the program, has now released its report on the findings from the first year. It shows that after one year of the monthly payments, there were “no statistically significant differences in experiences of food, housing, and utility security between the …

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