Guaranteed income experiment for Black women aims to tackle racial wealth gap

Guaranteed income experiment for Black women aims to tackle racial wealth gap

Atlanta Cityscapes And City Views The Old Fourth Ward neighborhood in Atlanta, Ga. – Raymond Boyd/Getty Images ATLANTA — When Michelle Lockhart was a teenager in Atlanta, she had to work two jobs — as a camp counselor and fast-food worker — to take care of her family.

She said her mother became disabled at that time due to a brain tumor, but it took months of cutting through red tape to qualify for desperately needed federal assistance.

If they had gotten more help then, "I could have focused on going to college and doing what people my age were doing: […]

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