A pilot programme in San Francisco will give $1,000 a month to 150 pregnant women. The Abundant Birth Project will from this summer provide the funds to Black and Pacific Islander mothers during their pregnancies and the first six months of their children’s lives.
Similar programmes across the United States are cropping up to address systemic poverty, inequality, and racism by giving people money directly instead of reforming welfare programmes within the US’s fragmented social safety net.
Programmes like this have been devised in at least half a dozen cities as the once-fringe idea of Universal Basic Income is gaining speed […]
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