Despite working multiple jobs, many Black women are still struggling with poverty and low incomes. A new program in Georgia will provide up to 650 Black women in the state who live near or below the poverty line with $850 in cash, no strings attached, to help ease their financial burdens, HuffPost reports.
The program, called In Her Hands , will launch early 2022 and will distribute more than $13 million. This would make it “one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S.,” according to HuffPost.
In Her Hands is backed by GiveDirectly and the Georgia Resilience […]
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