Yfat Yossifor | KERA Harris County is again at the center of a legal challenge filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who Thursday deemed a revised guaranteed income program unconstitutional.
“What we are looking at now is just ensuring those dollars go towards adjusting poverty in Harris County,” County Judge Lina Hidalgo said during a Thursday press conference.
“There are always other strategies and we are just going to keep the commitment,” Hidalgo said.Paxton earlier this year struck down the county’s efforts to provide monthly stipends to lower-income families. He requested the state prohibit payments under the county’s pilot guaranteed […]
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