Secondary outcomes
disability
Financial effects of the pandemic were measured through the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Financial Wellbeing Scale (FWS), administered at 6-month intervals beginning at Wave 5 [Agency was measured by change in employment status from baseline to Wave 4, 4 to 6, and 6 to 7 using ANCOVA. Employment status was shifted from a categorical to binary variable and coded as 1 = eligible for employment and employed (full-time employed, part-time employed, stay-at-home parent or caregiver) or 0 = eligible for employment but not employed (unemployed and looking for work and unemployed and not looking for work). Individuals who indicated they were ineligible for employment due to retirement, disability, or student status were excluded from the analyses.A key tenant of guaranteed income is unconditionality; thus, even members of the treatment group were not compelled to participate in research activities as a condition of receiving the guaranteed income. Statistical power was limited by attrition and differential outcomes of the politically purposive cohort (