Posted on 10/21/2020 4:16:45 PM PDT by dynachrome
Dubbed the Compton Pledge, the guaranteed income program will begin distributing free cash to 800 residents of the city in Los Angeles County for a period of two years. Compton Mayor Aja Brown has said that the ambitious program is the largest of its kind in for any city in the U.S.
The majority Black and Latino city is just the latest in a growing list of cities across the country, and the world, that is experimenting with new ways to put money in residents’ hands give the grave economic calamity caused by the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.
“I recognized that there’s a need for additional income, especially with the pandemic resulting in record high numbers of unemployment throughout the entire country,” the mayor told the Los Angeles Times.
“This is a great opportunity to address inequalities for Black and brown people and also additional opportunities for upward mobility.”
The guaranteed income program is also meant to “challenge the racial and economic injustice plaguing both welfare programs and economic systems,” according to a statement released by the Compton Pledge on Monday.
“People in our community are going through tough times, and I know that guaranteed income could give people a moment to navigate their situation, and have some breathing room to go back to school, explore a new career path, spend time with their children, or improve their mental and emotional wellbeing,” Brown said in the statement.
“Ensuring all people are able to live with dignity is something we should all strive for in America.”
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Everyone in town seems to wear Air Jordans
“the racial and economic injustice plaguing both welfare programs and economic systems,”
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I thought we already had this program. It’s called welfare.
I wish I had the meth store there.
You pre-emptively stole my thunder.
And don’t forget the liquor store business. They’ll drink down their “guaranteed ‘income’” like water and be worse off than before.
How come the brown people get reparations too—this is _so_ confusing!
The new Compton fad is $1295 Canada Goose parka’s in California. I wonder why?
Its a way for the mayor to pay off her cronies and precinct organizers.
I should move there since I am an albino african./s
See tagline
“60 inch TV sales magically increase”
Why buy when you can loot?
Idiocracy...
Well, I might patronize starbux if it was like the movie...
;)
If the idiot governor of Cali would open up the state so people can go back to work instead of keeping it locked up and masked, you’d see a magical increase in income for everyone that won’t be stolen from the taxes of everyone who is still working-but that would make too much sense...
The other 25,000 will not be happy with this.
l8r
“I got an Obama phone.”
Same crowd.
OMG the fricking state is closed there is no tax money coming in WTF!!
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