Posted on 03/19/2024 7:07:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sacramento County is joining a growing list of places around the United States offering no-strings-attached payments to its lowest-income residents.
The Sacramento Board of Supervisors approved the basic-income pilot program last week. It's set to offer $725 a month to low-income Black and Native American families. The county is funding the program through a partnership with United Way.
Sacramento County has partnered with United Way for other basic-income programs in the past. About 100 families received $300 monthly from the county in its first program, which began in June 2021 and lasted through May 2023.
United Way is still tracking the results of that program, but an initial report found that three out of four participants said they were more confident they could reach their financial goals after joining the program.
Michelle Callejas, the director of child, family, and adult services for the county, spoke at the county board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday. She said the guaranteed-income program was just one piece of a six-step plan to eliminate child poverty.
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You cannot eliminate poverty by encouraging sloth.
Who can help a White brother out?
Oh, sorry. Just joking. 🤣😬
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“I won’t give another penny to United Way!”
i quit 40 years ago ... they basically fund progressive/leftist/fascist outfits around here ...
Stealth reparations; it’ll percolate up to others in time. The question is what agency will be tasked with distribution, and how much of a cut will its managers take.
More LBJ type permanent poverty. THis should create a nationwide ghetto plantation.
See Mayflower Compact and how that worked out.
If it takes the place of other assistance, fine. But once it is spent that’s it. Oh and drug testing and proof of looking for employment or enrollment into continuing education for employment purposes. I don’t consider those a string.
***of a six-step plan to eliminate child poverty. ***
But, WAIT! Did not Lyndon Johnson do that with his War On Poverty in 1964?
Native American Indians around Sacramento have very busy casinos.
Beat me to it! I’ve been posting the same thing.
If people are willing to work their butts 40 hours a week for a paycheck just so they can lose it at the local casino I have no problem with that. we have Tribal casinos all over Oklahoma now, and a small group of Cherokees tried to buy land in Hot Springs AR years ago to build a casino there. (NOTE: Hot Springs Arkansas was a hot bed of illegal gambling for years ago.)
Illegals are getting much more than that.
What was once called 'welfare;...
This is above what families are getting from other sources...
Even if they claim it’s reparations it’s discrimination. Why are middle class blacks excluded? Heck if not for slavery they’d all be living in Wakanda.
It’s unconstitutional to select for race.
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