poverty in america
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Compton to Launch Pilot Program That Will Give Regular Cash Payments to its Lowest Income Residents
On Monday, Compton Mayor Aja Brown announced the upcoming launch of a pilot program that will give regular, free payments to 800 of its lowest-income residents. According to CNN, the Compton Pledge will launch later this year and provide a group of “pre-verified” residents with monthly payments over the course of two years. The exact…
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This 27-Year-Old Mayor Is Giving Away Money to Realize MLK’s Last, Most Radical Dream
Soon after Michael Tubbs was sworn in as mayor of Stockton, Calif., he set his first objective: Disrupt the status quo. The city he grew up in, like so many others across America, had hit hard times, and the Stanford-educated native son sought to bring his millennial moxie and Silicon Valley bona fides to the…