Compton Mayor Aja Lena Brown speaks to the media before a gift card give-away to 50 families in need because of the coronavirus pandemic. Each family is invited to shop at the Compton Grocery Outlet store before it opens to the public on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) Compton is set to launch the nation’s largest city-led universal basic income pilot program later this year, officials announced Monday, Oct. 19.
About 800 low-income residents in the city of roughly 95,000 people will receive regular payments of anywhere from $300 to $600 for two years. The […]
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