Last month, Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne announced that the city will join a coalition of cities experimenting with a guaranteed basic income by giving 200 families at risk of homelessness $750 a month for a year. “We are trying to use every tool we can to help these families become stable,” the mayor said in an interview. Her office worked with the public schools and local social services to identify residents in need, as part of the city’s comprehensive efforts to provide financial literacy, rental vouchers and other measures to keep vulnerable Somerville residents in their homes.
Unlike food stamps, […]
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