The California city began distributing out up to $600 monthly to low-income residents.
The term “government assistance,” at least in the U.S., tends to conjure up images of long lines outside municipal buildings, byzantine tax-rebate systems impossible for the average person to navigate, or Bill Clinton talking about “welfare reform.”
Last week, Compton, California, made government assistance less complicated. On Jan. 21, the city distributed the first payments of the Compton Pledge program—officials simply sent money to some of the city’s residents.An initiative of Mayor Aja Brown, the program is expected to hand out between $300 and $600 per month […]
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