Senator Cortese’s (D-Silicon Valley) bill to provide guaranteed income payments to California’s unhoused youth has cleared a crucial hurdle today, advancing through the State Senate. The bill is now headed to the State Assembly.
Senate Bill 1341 would create the California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (CalSOAR) Guaranteed Income Program to provide guaranteed direct cash assistance to homeless youth in grade 12 – to combat what’s known as the “summer slump”, so that students can exit poverty and have access to a higher education.
According to Census Data (DataQuest), there were approximately 15,000 students experiencing homelessness who were enrolled in the […]
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