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Results of the year-long basic income study were released at an event in Portland Tuesday, Sept. 10. Allison Edwards, center in white, a program participant, said the payments gave her the financial stability to spend more time with her young daughter.
Ari Snider
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Maine Public
The initiative, through the Quality Housing Coalition, provided monthly direct payments of $1,000 to 20 low-income women.
Clockwise from left: A customer picks up their ice cream order at the UConn Dairy Bar in Storrs, Conn. (Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative) A trail leading deeper into the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge area, near the welcome center in Swanton, Vermont. (Sophie Stephens/Vermont Public) Portland Head Light Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. (Tulley Hescock/Maine Public). A long line of tourists enters the Lobster Pot in Provincetown in 2022. (Jesse Costa/WBUR file photo)
Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative, Sophie Stephens/Vermont Public, Tulley Hescock/Maine Public, Jesse Costa/WBUR file photo
Our public media journalists explored fun things to do on day trips in the states that make up New England. Not a bad assignment.