LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Starting Friday, Los Angeles residents can apply for the city’s guaranteed basic income pilot program, which will give $1,000 a month to 3,000 households for a year.
The nearly $40 million BIG:LEAP (Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot) program is the largest of its kind in the United States.
"Its name perfectly captures what we’re doing here in L.A. because we’re taking a big leap forward in our generational fight to end poverty, to break the back of our addiction to poverty here in America," Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday.The monthly payments will be given […]
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