Las Cruces rolls out city’s first publicly funded basic income program

Las Cruces rolls out city's first publicly funded basic income program

Las Cruces City Hall. Las Cruces’s first publicly funded guaranteed basic income program is in the works. The city-approved pilot project will allocate federal funds and provide monthly payments for a year and a half to qualifying low-income individuals, with the goal of evaluating recipient outcomes. This comes after some in the community took part in a privately funded GBI program sponsored by NM CAFé and other nonprofits.

Guaranteed basic income provides unconditional and unrestricted payments to help individuals with their basic needs. Last year, Cecilia, who asked to remain anonymous, received monthly $500 payments from a privately funded program […]

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