Homes in the Hill District, seen from Mount Washington Pittsburgh City Council members support a program to provide a no-strings-attached $500 monthly payment to 200 low-income residents as part of an experiment being done by dozens of cities across the country to measure the impacts of guaranteed basic income.
“This is the right thing to do at the right time,” Councilman Ricky Burgess said Wednesday, when council advanced legislation that would send $2.5 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding to the nonprofit OnePGH to underwrite most of the cost of the two-year program.
Other council members supported the program, […]
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