Basic income programs are not new in Texas, but state officials challenged recent attempts in Harris County to pay low-income households $500 a month.ASSOCIATED PRESS Do guaranteed income programs have a place in Texas?
They’ve been done before. Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston have all operated basic income programs since 2020. But more recent efforts received pushback from state leaders.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in April to halt monthly payments of $500 to 1,900 of Harris County’s poorest households, calling the program unconstitutional. As a result, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked the project days […]
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