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New Orleans to pay teens $350 a month in financial literacy push
CBS News ^ | 12 November 2021 | KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS

Posted on 11/15/2021 1:47:24 AM PST by blueplum

More than 100 young people in Louisiana will receive $3,500 next year under a financial literacy program from the City of New Orleans.

City officials said Thursday that 125 residents between the ages of 16 and 24 will receive 10 payments of $350 starting next spring. The money will be loaded onto an ATM card provided by Black-owned online bank Mobility Capital Finance. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said..

The goal, city officials said, is to address the "unbanked" problem plaguing the Big Easy. The "unbanked" is a term the financial services industry has adopted to describe adults who earn money but do not use bank accounts to help them manage those wages. ...

One of 20 U.S. households are currently unbanked, according to a June study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Louisiana has one of the highest percentages of its state population that's unbanked: 15%...

...New Orleans received a $500,000 grant from Mayors For A Guaranteed Income in December and that money will be used to fund the cards. Mayors For A Guaranteed Income is a coalition of U.S. mayors who are pushing for a nationwide universal basic income program...

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: castesystems; funnymoney; paytoplay; thewrongway
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To: blueplum

They’ll be able to buy bags of the GOOD weed now…


21 posted on 11/15/2021 6:44:12 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Leep

Try it and find out.


22 posted on 11/15/2021 6:46:31 AM PST by sport
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To: blueplum

$1 per non-Ebonic words?


23 posted on 11/15/2021 8:47:54 AM PST by keving (We the government )
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To: blueplum

Now children were going to play carrot on a stick this is how it works...........................


24 posted on 11/15/2021 9:02:41 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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