Applications are now open for Prince George’s County’s first ever guaranteed basic income program, which offers payments of $800 a month, no strings attached.
The pilot program will give 175 seniors and young adults the extra cash every month for two years.
“It gets hard, you know, it gets hard,” applicant Phyllis Wright said. “Most of us are just on a fixed income and barely making it.”Wright is like many local seniors, and with two teenage honor students under her roof, every month she gets hit with that familiar feeling as she tries to make ends meet.“You try to hold on. […]
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