$53,000,000 To Be Handed Out in Major US City in Controversial Guaranteed Income Pilot: Report

$53,000,000 To Be Handed Out in Major US City in Controversial Guaranteed Income Pilot: Report

A new basic income program is set to give away tens of millions of dollars in America’s most densely populated city.

New York City has allocated $53 million to give to migrants who are currently being put up in hotels, reports the New York Post.

More than 150,000 people seeking asylum have arrived in the city from the southern border in the last two years, triggering a billion-dollar crisis that has sent officials scrambling.The new pilot program will hand out pre-paid credit cards to 500 migrant families.Each recipient gets about $350 a month to spend on food and baby supplies, which […]

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