California’s Yolo County Considering Small Basic Income Pilot Funded by Marijuana Revenue

California’s Yolo County Considering Small Basic Income Pilot Funded by Marijuana Revenue

Photo by Next Green Wave Families with young children currently living in deep poverty in Yolo County would receive monthly cash assistance under a universal basic income pilot project that county supervisors will consider on Tuesday.

A total of 31 families in the CalWORKS Housing Support Program with children under the age of two would receive monthly payments for a year, up to a maximum of $12,155 annually per family.

That cash assistance, combined with the CalWORKS grant they already receive to help with housing costs, would bring these families’ incomes up to a minimum poverty threshold ($25,658 for a family […]

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