It is said that a new guaranteed income program of several millions of dollars in one American city is launching to help survivors of domestic violence and to promote young people.
The Los Angeles city council has assigned just $ 2 million for the pilot program that aims to provide $ 1,000 monthly payments to qualifying participants for two years, ABC7 reports.
La-councilor Hugo Soto-Martinez, who led the effort with fellow LA council member Curren Price, says that the new program is intended to build on the success of an earlier basic income pilot program that delivered 3,200 households that lived below the poverty level, every month $ 1,000 in cash for 12 months.
Says Soto-Martinez,
“We build on the success of that program with a new investment of $ 2 million, and this next phase will continue to support survivors of intimate partner violence – the group that saw the most dramatic improvements in that pilot program.”
Soto-Martinez also says that the current or former foster youngsters between the ages of 16 and 24 are eligible to participate in the new program and they will receive a job training together with the monthly payments.
“For the first we combine these direct payments with job training through the Hospitality Training Academy, which has a success rate of almost 100% when placing their graduate in high -quality, well -paid trade union courses.”
The program is expected to help 83 participants.
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