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Zoomed in map of USA with Mercer County, WV and Beaufort County, NC and Warren County, MS highlighted -- the locations of the first three RGMII programs

Voluntary Research Participation: Our First Three RGMII Counties

The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative has three primary goals: 1. Help lift rural Americans out of poverty with direct cash payments over the course of 16 months. 2. Study the process of the GMI programs, so that the GMI playbook can be improved and repeated, for more people, in
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street view of a business in rural Indiana

Welcome to RGMII

Hello, and welcome to the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative! What RGMII is an effort to provide a Guaranteed Minimum Income to folks in rural US counties — direct, regular, obligation-free cash payments to those most in need. This idea has a surprisingly long history in America, and forms of
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