Over a year after the city of Chelsea gave 2,000 families $400 a month between 2020 and 2021, much of which was spent on groceries, city officials are planning a second round of payments beginning in January.
Chelsea Eats began at the suggestion of city manager Tom Ambrosino in 2020, The Boston Globe reported. Combining city and federal COVID-19 relief funds, along with a grant from the Shah Family Foundation , $4 million was put together to support families unable to receive federal assistance. “We didn’t promote it as universal basic income,” he said to the Globe. “We promoted it […]
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