Tag: basic income

As covid relief money floods in, pandemic-battered cities see a chance to transform

The pandemic had blown a $63 million hole in the Alabama city’s finances, and the costs were piling up: furloughed workers, slashed salaries, cuts to programs as varied as the arts and the zoo. On the day last fall that the city council passed its red-ink-streaked budget, angry librarians protested outside.

But the atmosphere abruptly changed this month when the city’s Democratic congresswoman came to town bearing an outsized $148 million check . The symbolic bank note, bearing President Biden’s signature, reflects the city’s allotment of federal coronavirus relief funds. It also represents, said Mayor Randall Woodfin (D), an opportunity […]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposes guaranteed basic income for Angelenos, grants for businesses

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposes guaranteed basic income for Angelenos, grants for businesses

Los Angeles (KABC)-Mayor Eric Garcetti financially during the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to address past racial injustices when proclaiming his annual State of the City Address on Monday. Proposed a series of new programs to help Angelenos struggling with.

Garsetti is proposing a guaranteed Basic Income Pilot project that pays $ 1,000 a month to 2,000 poor Los Angeles households.

“We are confident that a small but steady investment in Angeleno’s households will bring great benefits to the health and stability of our entire city and ignite the entire country,” Garsetti said. Told.This adds to the previous $ 6 million allocation to […]

BIG coalition questions poverty fight measures

BIG coalition questions poverty fight measures

The Basic Income Grant (BIG) Coalition of Namibia has criticised new poverty eradication measures announced by President Hage Geingob during last week’s State of the Nation Address.

Geingob last week hinted government would consolidate and modify the ongoing food bank initiative, marginalised grant and feeding scheme, instead of introducing a basic income grant.

To this, the coalition’s activist Rinaani Musutua claimed the Head of State was still basing his poverty eradication measures and legacy on outdated welfare programmes.Musutua, in a statement on Friday, said Geingob’s poverty eradication measures are “irrelevant and have made very little impact to the current situation”.“The President’s […]

Garcetti Offers $ 24 Million Basic Income Pilot Program

Garcetti Offers $ 24 Million Basic Income Pilot Program

A new city-wide poverty alleviation proposal from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti would give money – unconditionally – to thousands of the city’s residents in the months to come.

Garcetti’s $ 24 million Guaranteed Basic Income program, which will be included in his city’s budget to be released Tuesday, would provide $ 1,000 per month to 2,000 Los Angeles families for a year. There will be no obligation on how to spend the money, according to the mayor’s office.

Progressive mayors across the country have adopted such “universal basic income” programs, which typically provide a monthly stipend to a small group […]

Commissioner Williams-Cox Seeks Information on “Monthly Income” Programs

Commissioner Williams-Cox Seeks Information on “Monthly Income” Programs

During the sharing of ideas part of the March 24th City Commission meeting, Commissioner Dianne Williams-Cox asked for more information about the success of cities using “monthly income” programs to address poverty.

Commissioner Williams-Cox noted that many cities across the country are dealing with poverty by using a program to identify or select a small group of people to receive a monthly income.

Commissioner Williams-Cox asked Mayor Dailey if he would reach out to his fellow mayors across the country to inquire about the results of such programs. Mayor Dailey said he would seek out the information and bring the findings […]

L.A. To Become Largest U.S. City To Offer Guaranteed Basic Income

L.A. To Become Largest U.S. City To Offer Guaranteed Basic Income

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing a program that provides basic income to poor residents.

On Tuesday, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti will put forward a proposal to City Council, asking for $24 million in next year’s budget to direct $1,000 monthly payments to 2,000 low-income families. This would make L.A. the largest city in the country to trial this type of program. Additional funds from various council districts and other sources could take that number up to $35 million, according to reports .

Those eligible for the policy would be chosen from the city’s fifteen districts, with the number […]

Villegas forges ahead with guaranteed basic income pilot program

Villegas forges ahead with guaranteed basic income pilot program

Chicago City Hall. Undaunted by a colleague’s warning that reparations must come first, an influential aldermen is forging ahead with an ordinance establishing the parameters to bring a $30 million universal basic income program to Chicago.

Last month, a seemingly harmless resolution calling for the city to use $30 million of the $1.9 billion avalanche of federal relief funds headed to Chicago to launch a guaranteed income pilot turned into an emotional debate about reparations.

Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, said then that it would be a “slap in the face” to African-Americans who have […]

Budget 2021: What’s missing as feds say no to new GST hike, universal basic income

Budget 2021: What’s missing as feds say no to new GST hike, universal basic income

WATCH: Breaking down the 2021 federal budget including childcare and extended pandemic support The Liberal government has laid out billions in fresh spending after over two years without a federal budget — and while many of the government’s recent pledges graced its pages, others were notably absent.

It’s possible some policies were pushed out of reach as COVID-19 variants sent a third wave hurtling through Canada, forcing the government to refocus its priorities onto more immediate relief measures, according to one economist.

“They left a lot of things out of this budget that I think were being kicked around, bandied about […]

Pandemic Opens Door to Universal Basic Income Programs in the US

Pandemic Opens Door to Universal Basic Income Programs in the US

Cars line up for food at the Utah Food Bank’s mobile food pantry at the Maverik Center, April 24, 2020, in West Valley City, Utah. As coronavirus concerns continue, the need for assistance has increased. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) COVID’s one-two-punch basically devastated the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts in terms of infection rates and unemployment.

"We have lots of undocumented workers here so many of them lost their hours, lost their jobs and they were not entitled to any kind of government assistance," City Manager, Tom Ambrosino, told CBN News.

The city tried running a food pantry but found it wasn’t the […]

Canadians support a basic income. Will the Liberals finally deliver?

Canadians support a basic income. Will the Liberals finally deliver?

Before the pandemic, 3.2 million people in Canada lived below the poverty line — poverty that has historically been disproportionately concentrated in Indigenous, racialized and migrant communities. Photo by Shutterstock Liberal Party delegates voted to pass not one but two basic income resolutions at their national convention that ran from April 8-10, making basic income the governing party’s second most important policy issue .

For those in support of basic income — a no-strings payment to anyone who needs it — this vote passing could seem like a cause for celebration. But before we get ahead of ourselves, it’s worth […]