The long line of Chelsea residents waiting for boxes of food prior to the shift to the buy-it-yourself Chelsea Eats program. (Photo by Michael Jonas) SHARE
Chelsea, drawing on state, municipal, and philanthropic funding, gave nearly 2,213 families $400 a month via cash cards for eight months under a program dubbed Chelsea Eats.
United South End Settlements, using only private funds, is in the midst of an 18-month program called STEP, or Striving Toward Economic Prosperity, that gives $800 monthly checks to 16 families led by single mothers. In Chelsea, Harvard researchers tracked where the cash cards were used and found […]
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