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Brown Hope founder and CEO Cameron Whitten acknowledged in a Dec. 8 interview with The Oregonian/Oregonlive that he had concerns that the 25 families who were supposed to receive the guaranteed basic income grants wouldn’t receive their money on time. The embattled racial justice nonprofit Brown Hope delayed the $2,000 monthly stipends that it promised to 25 Black families after its bank froze its account, an email obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows.

Black Resilience Fund Program Manager Alexandrea Wilson wrote in the Dec. 21 email to grant recipients that Brown Hope’s bank was requesting an official letter from the nonprofit’s […]

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(The Center Square) – The city of St. Louis became Missouri’s first municipality to create a guaranteed basic income program when Mayor Tishaura Jones signed Board Bill 116 into law.

The bill gives authority to the city’s treasurer to negotiate and execute logistics contracts and permission to the comptroller for distributing $4 million in cash. Approximately 440 households meeting eligibility requirements will receive $500 per month for 18 months.

An additional $1 million will be used for benefits counselors and program administrators.Parents or legal guardians of youth under 18 who are city residents and had a negative financial impact due to […]

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St. Louis has launched a basic guaranteed income program — and it’s just the beginning. City leaders in St. Louis, Missouri have stepped up to provide monthly cash payments to families struggling to meet basic needs amid economic woes and lingering pandemic financial fallout.

The St. Louis Board of Alderman, the legislative body of the city, has passed a motion to provide monthly payments of $500 to more than 400 local families. And on Dec. 28, Major Tishaura Jones announced that she had signed the bill into law.

To qualify for the payout, families must have at least one child enrolled […]

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(The Center Square) – The city of St. Louis became Missouri’s first municipality to create a guaranteed basic income program when Mayor Tishaura Jones signed Board Bill 116 into law.

The bill gives authority to the city’s treasurer to negotiate and execute logistics contracts and permission to the comptroller for distributing $4 million in cash. Approximately 440 households meeting eligibility requirements will receive $500 per month for 18 months.

An additional $1 million will be used for benefits counselors and program administrators.Parents or legal guardians of youth under 18 who are city residents and had a negative financial impact due to […]

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The concise overview illuminates precisely how and why it is that precarious employment has negative implications for mental health, with the aim of supporting scholars to advance research and policy engagement in this area.

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A new paper co-authored by King’s researchers finds that insecure work can deprive people not only of the financial benefits of secure employment but also the social benefits of regular routine, identity, valued social status and positive social interactions.
Co-authored by Dr Annie Irvine from the Centre for Society & Mental Health, the paper aims to synthesise evidence on how […]

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Currently, there are at least 82 municipalities in 29 states conducting universal basic income experiments. This includes over 70 pilot programs created during the past year per a coalition of over 100 American mayors pushing the UBI.

According to a report by John Haughey of The Epoch Times, Mayors for Guaranteed Income and its coalition members are calling on local governments to roll out pilot programs with federal pandemic assistance from a $350 billion fund for state and local governments within the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), enacted in March 2021. This mayoral group was created by former […]

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During the COVID-19 public health crisis, the United States economy was given a real-time lesson on the advantages and disadvantages of a universal basic income (UBI) program. It turned out that the pandemic-era public policy of something for nothing had grave consequences for the economic landscape, be it the labor market or inflation. Today, the nation is still enduring the consequences of handing out free money to millions of Americans through stimulus and relief checks and sweetened unemployment benefits. Now that the genie has been let out of the bottle, left-leaning officials want to start implementing the same concept […]

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Monthly checks for $1,000 are being issued as part of a further economic relief to address the crisis continuing to be faced by many from the coronavirus pandemic. The monthly checks will last for a year and a half in New York State through the Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) programme, while in Los Angeles, California, the same amount will be distributed for three years through the Breathe programme.
It is worth mentioning that the checks in New York are only intended exclusively for those who work as artists.
**Now accepting applications through April 13**
Applications for […]

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