Rochester to launch pilot program for guaranteed basic income this spring

Rochester to launch pilot program for guaranteed basic income this spring

FILE – In this June 15, 2018, file photo, cash is fanned out from a wallet in North Andover, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — After a year and a half of planning, the City of Rochester is poised to launch a pilot program that would give $500 a month to roughly 350 families living in poverty, starting this spring.

Back in 2021, then-mayor Lovely Warren submitted a proposal for the program, called Guaranteed basic income (GBI), just hours before her resignation. It was quickly approved by city council .

Details are still being finalized, and have been […]

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