A flyer advertises an earlier version of Harris County’s guaranteed income program. After the state blocked the program, county officials revamped the initiative and renamed it the Community Prosperity Program. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing to fight Harris County’s guaranteed income initiative even after officials scaled it back to more closely resemble existing state and federal public assistance programs.
Under the revamped program, what had been a monthly no-strings-attached stipend of $500 now will be limited to the purchase of food, housing and utilities with a pre-loaded debit card issued by the […]
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