Evanston, IL to Become First City to Give Reparations to Black Residents
Oakland, California will begin awarding low-income black families, homeless individuals and foreign nationals $500 a month in a bid to end racial disparities.
According to Breitbart, the program apparently excludes white households “living in equivalent poverty.”
According to CNN, the “Oakland Resilient Families Program” will give the extra cash to families with at least one minor child, selecting recipients at random from an online database
To qualify for the Oakland Resilient Families payments, families must have at least one child under 18. Their income must be at or below the area’s median income: around $59,000 for a family of three.
But half of the available spots will be reserved for very low-income families — those who earn below 138% of the federal poverty level — or, about $30,000 per year for a family of three.
An online, multilingual screening form will be released later this spring and summer, after which families will be chosen at random to receive the payments. The program is also open to undocumented and/or unsheltered families. Because recipients will not be required to work for the payments, the money is not considered taxable income.
The program is funded by private donations instead of tax dollars and will begin with 600 families who will receive the payments over a year and a half—totaling $9,000 per family.
The Mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, pushed for “guaranteed income” in a statement about the program. “The poverty we all witness today is not a personal failure, it is a systems failure,” she said. “Guaranteed income is one of the most promising tools for systems change, racial equity, and economic mobility we’ve seen in decades.”
For the full report, click HERE.
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Oakland, California will begin awarding low-income black families, homeless individuals and foreign nationals $500 a month in a bid to end racial disparities.
According to Breitbart, the program apparently excludes white households “living in equivalent poverty.”
According to CNN, the “Oakland Resilient Families Program” will give the extra cash to families with at least one minor child, selecting recipients at random from an online database
To qualify for the Oakland Resilient Families payments, families must have at least one child under 18. Their income must be at or below the area’s median income: around $59,000 for a family of three.
But half of the available spots will be reserved for very low-income families — those who earn below 138% of the federal poverty level — or, about $30,000 per year for a family of three.
An online, multilingual screening form will be released later this spring and summer, after which families will be chosen at random to receive the payments. The program is also open to undocumented and/or unsheltered families. Because recipients will not be required to work for the payments, the money is not considered taxable income.
The program is funded by private donations instead of tax dollars and will begin with 600 families who will receive the payments over a year and a half—totaling $9,000 per family.
The Mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, pushed for “guaranteed income” in a statement about the program. “The poverty we all witness today is not a personal failure, it is a systems failure,” she said. “Guaranteed income is one of the most promising tools for systems change, racial equity, and economic mobility we’ve seen in decades.”
For the full report, click HERE.