A county in California just launched a guaranteed income program to help low-income Black and Native American families.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Family First Sacramento pilot program on Tuesday.
The program, which launches this July, will allocate a basic income of $725 to eligible African American and Native-American families with children up to age 5 in the Valley High, Florin, North Sacramento, Del Paso Heights, Arden Arcade areas, as well as the Wilton Rancheria tribe.“These are families that are living within high rates of poverty across all the zip codes,” Michelle Callejas, director of the Department […]
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