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Anecdotally, the Denver Basic Income Project has saved lives. According to new research on the program that provided no-strings-attached cash to 807 homeless adults in Denver, it also saved taxpayers significant money throughout its first-year pilot program. The savings manifested in program participants staying in homeless shelters less frequently, requiring fewer ambulance rides, emergency room visits and hospital stays, and spending fewer nights in jail or drug and alcohol treatment centers, a report released Tuesday morning shows. Decreases in those categories added up to more than $589,000 saved, according to estimates from researchers with the Center for Housing and Homelessness Research at the University of Denver. Denver Basic Income Project founder Mark Donovan knows that while improvements in participants’ well-being and quality of life are the core goals of the effort, demonstrating the efficacy of basic income payments on reducing strain on public services is part of what will convince more governments, charities and individuals to support the concept in the future. “As demonstrated in the Year One report, the program not only significantly increases housing stability for participants, but also reduces reliance on public services, like emergency room visits and public shelters,” Donovan said in a statement released alongside the report on Tuesday morning. The pilot program was the largest of its kind studying the impact of direct cash on people who are homeless, according to program runners. Utilizing $9 million cobbled together from contributors including $2 million in federal funds dedicated by the city of Denver, the program split enrollees into three cohorts.

When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump meet on the debate stage on June 27, they will do so under a new set of rules designed to avoid the chaotic scenes and frequent interruptions that marked their debates during the last election. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The new rules, introduced by CNN ahead of this year’s first presidential debate, include measures such as muted microphones to ensure each candidate’s uninterrupted speaking time and the absence of a live audience to minimize external disruptions, a departure from the traditional framework governed by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.

Denver will dedicate $5 million in federal COVID-19 recovery funds to efforts to move more than 250 people off the city’s streets and directly into rented apartments over the next two years. It’s a fast-lane approach to homelessness resolution that would skip over the converted hotel shelters and micro-communities that so far have been the central pillars of Mayor Mike Johnston’s All In Mile High homelessness initiative. The City Council on Monday voted 8 to 2 to authorize a two-year contract with Housing Connector to power that work. A self-described “tech-for-good” nonprofit, Housing Connector works directly with landlords and property managers to secure rental housing for people experiencing homelessness and help those people stay housed in the short term.

Abortion-rights activists sell bumper stickers to capitalize on Noem dog controversy by Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight June 10, 2024 Abortion-rights activists are capitalizing on the backlash against South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s dog-killing revelation in her new book.  In “No Going Back,” Noem disclosed that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog Cricket in a gravel pit after the dog attacked chickens and performed poorly during a pheasant hunt.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive, election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U. S. — aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The White House announced Tuesday that the Biden administration will, in the coming months, allow certain spouses of U.

By SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U. S., aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. The White House announced Tuesday that the Biden administration will, in the coming months, allow certain spouses of U.