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Essays for a Guaranteed Income

This week, I am publishing a series of essays on Guaranteed Income and the ways it would change five people’s lives. First up, an essay from Quinisha Jackson-Wright. This essay was edited Brooke Obie.

Quinisha Jackson-Wright is a U.S. Navy veteran, freelance journalist (with bylines in The New York Times, Wired, and ZORA by Medium), and author of Working…