Coumba Holland at her apartment in Lewiston on Oct. 1, 2024. Holland is one of twenty formerly-homeless single mothers selected for the inaugural year of the Quality Housing Coalition’s guaranteed income program. Guaranteed income is an idea based on the belief that providing unrestricted cash payments to low-income residents is the best way to help them lift themselves out of poverty. It’s a model that’s been championed by seemingly disparate figures over the decades, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, and, more recently, tech entrepreneurs such as Andrew Yang.
Now, one Maine nonprofit has wrapped up a pilot of […]
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