As Americans are crushed by affordability, mayors push cash handouts as the answer in growing trend

A spokesperson for the Economic Securities Project (ESP), an organization that led the creation of more than 100 guaranteed income programs, told Fox News Digital that affordability is creating the "need to bring cash to communities even more urgent."

"Further, the destruction of the social safety net paired with skyrocketing costs of healthcare and food have made the need to bring cash to communities even more urgent," ESP's director of cash initiatives, Shafeka Hashash, told Fox News Digital.