Fifteen black mothers living in subsidized housing in Jackson will receive $1,000 in no-strings-attached cash every month for the next year.
The pilot project, mirroring other basic income experiments across the nation and world, aims to show what happens in families when parents are no longer “constantly having to operate in survival mode,” said Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunity, the nonprofit spearheading the effort.
The initiative, dubbed Magnolia Mother’s Trust , is the first of its kind focused on low-income black mothers. Springboard, a Jackson-based group that assists families in affordable housing, partnered with Economic Security Project and other […]
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