PITTSBURGH, PA (September 8, 2021) City Council will consider Mayor William Peduto’s plans for the Assured Cash Experiment PGH (AcePGH), a guaranteed basic income pilot to combat poverty and inequity that will provide an unrestricted $500 monthly cash transfer to 200 people in the City of Pittsburgh. One hundred of the participants will be Black women in response to inequities that Black women face in Pittsburgh, as clearly defined in the 2019 Gender Equity Commission report Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across Gender and Race.
According to the report, Black women and children are more likely to live in poverty in Pittsburgh […]
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