Dist. 2 Atlanta City Councilman Amir Farokhi has announced the establishment of the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity (GRO) Fund, which will help Black women living near or below the federal poverty line.
The nonprofit, led by Hope Wollensack as executive director, is set to launch in early 2022 and will be one of the largest Guaranteed Income (GI) programs in the United States.
The program, called In Her Hands, will provide unconditional cash transfers averaging $850 per month for two years, totaling $13 million, to 650 Black women near or below the federal poverty line in urban, suburban, and rural Georgia […]
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