Tacoma’s GRIT income program showing early signs of success

Tacoma’s GRIT income program showing early signs of success

A foreign-born worker from Mexico, wearing a protective mask, collects fallen autumn leaves while cleaning a street in Washington state. (Photo by Jinhee Lee/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Just a year into Tacoma’s Growing Resilience In Tacoma (GRIT) program, the city has received glowing praise for the pilot program’s success and is now looking into ways to expand it statewide over the next few years.

Over 100 lower-income households in Tacoma received $500 a month for 12 months as part of GRIT.

“To restore truth to the idea of the American dream for working families, we must give people what they […]

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