A New York City guaranteed income program is giving monthly payments to pregnant women and new mothers in high-poverty NYC neighborhoods. Photographer: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP As a single mother of a young boy and a baby, Kassandra Hernandez has spent a lot of brainpower thinking about how to stretch every last dollar.
Juggling a part-time job in medical billing with child care made even more spotty by Covid quarantines meant income trickled in unpredictably. Her grocery trips are subsidized by the government , but food wasn’t the only thing her family needed. Sometimes, she said, a carton of yogurt purchased with […]
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