What happens when a program designed to fight childhood poverty begins before a child is even born? In this Common Core Diva discussion, Lynne Taylor and Deb Fillman examine Rx Kids, a Flint, Michigan initiative providing cash payments to pregnant women and families with newborns, and connect it to the broader debate over Universal Basic Income (UBI), Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI), TANF funding, public-private partnerships, data collection, education, and government dependency. The conversation explores the stated goals of improving childhood well-being and educational outcomes while raising questions about funding, incentives, parental responsibility, privacy, family autonomy, and the long-term consequences of expanding government-supported cash programs.
The Commoncore Diva is back to tell the untold story about Universal Basic Income (UBI), how it will be pilot-tested in Flint Michigan, and its hidden costs to childhood for the children living (and not yet born) there. Since bad ideas rarely stay in one place, every taxpayer, and parent, needs to hear what Lynne has found!
Lynne’s latest article about this issue: “How Much for the Children?” https://www.commoncorediva.com/2023/10/03/how-much-for-the-children/
Resources:
1) The CGLR Webinar on Rx Kids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug85O7vT3Vk
2) https://jointsdgfund.org/article/universal-basic-income-means-gender-responsive-social-protection
(How UBI is supposed to level the ‘gender’ crap)
3) This one, from Finland about UBI is only about 5 mins, not only covers the Rx Kids, but the school choice ESAs, vouchers, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVd11Pjh-c
4) This concept can easily be seen via this article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…
5) Lynne’s website link to the ‘school choice info kits’: https://www.commoncorediva.com/donate/
6) Lynne’s Common Core Diva homepage where https://www.commoncorediva.com/
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