About 650 Black women across Georgia who live in poverty are slated to receive payments of $850 per month over two years in one of several guaranteed income experiments across the county, ABC News reports.
The In Her Hands program will operate alongside Atlanta’s basic income initiative launched by the city’s former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms . The city’s pilot will serve 300 residents who are at least 18 years old and live below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, $53,000 for a family of four.
Similar guaranteed income programs are popping up in several cities across the country that […]
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