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    Compton rolls out largest 2-year guaranteed income program amid racial injustice reckoning

    Compton rolls out largest 2-year guaranteed income program amid racial injustice reckoning

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...cial-injustice

    Hundreds of people living in the California city of Compton, including those out of prison and illegal immigrants, will be eligible to receive guaranteed income as part of a new pilot program over the next two years.

    Compton Mayor Aja Brown announced Monday that The Compton Pledge, a landmark guaranteed income initiative, will distribute recurring, direct cash relief to approximately 800 low-income residents for two years, starting in late 2020.

    It’s the largest city-led guaranteed income program in the U.S. to date and comes amid a nationwide reckoning on racial injustice and inequality. According to the city, all funds are being raised privately in partnership with the Jain Family Institute, an applied research group, and the Fund for Guaranteed Income, a registered public charity launched to steward guaranteed income as a path to racial justice.

    Those who were formally incarcerated, as well as illegal immigrants, are eligible for the program and may receive regular cash payments worth at least hundreds of dollars.

    Patrisse Cullors, an advocate of the Compton Pledge and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, said, “guaranteed income is an urgent and necessary strategy for addressing the economic realities of racial injustice. I’m thrilled Mayor Brown and Compton are leading the way in this growing national movement.”

    Brown said her own household growing up could have benefited from a guaranteed income program, as her mother was forced to move around frequently if unplanned expenses or emergencies arose.

    “People in our community are going through tough times, and I know that guaranteed income could give people a moment to navigate their situation, and have some breathing room to go back to school, explore a new career path, spend time with their children, or improve their mental and emotional wellbeing,” Brown said in a statement. “Ensuring all people are able to live with dignity is something we should all strive for in America.”

    Under the program, a pre-verified group of low-income residents will be notified of their selection and begin receiving cash transfers shortly thereafter. Recipients will be able to choose between multiple payment options to best suit their needs. The city said the situation in Compton “acutely faces many of the issues that have defined a national conversation about racial injustice and structural inequality.”

    Out of the city’s some 95,000 residents, about 30% are Black and 68% are Latino. About one in five residents live in poverty, which is double the nationwide average. Unemployment has risen by 21.9% since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and a growing number of residents regularly rely on food pantries.



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    This decision may have sad consequences for this state. The number of migrants who do not want to work, but want to receive benefits and stay at home, will be huge. I saw perfectly well what happened to Germany when it let in Arab emigrants. At that moment, I was expanding my business internationally. We have opened a chain of restaurants in several European cities with the help of an innovative grant from innovation-park.eu. They also helped me draw up all the legal documents and develop a further development strategy. I wanted to hire migrants then because I felt sympathy for them. But none of those who lived on benefits did not want to bother with work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jewwa View Post
    I'm going to cry. I'm happy Compton is thinking about the people in the state who don't have enough money. She realized a need for extra income, especially with the pandemic, which led to a record-high number of unemployed people.
    There was no reason for people to be unemployed but there was unemployment insurance for that .
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jewwa View Post
    I'm happy Compton is thinking about the people in the state who don't have enough money. .
    Enough money for what?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jewwa View Post
    I'm going to cry. I'm happy Compton is thinking about the people in the state who don't have enough money. She realized a need for extra income, especially with the pandemic, which led to a record-high number of unemployed people.
    If you're in California you're going to cry. California does not have its own money printing machines. And the federal printers are about to run out of ink.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    Compton rolls out largest 2-year guaranteed income program amid racial injustice reckoning

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...cial-injustice

    Hundreds of people living in the California city of Compton, including those out of prison and illegal immigrants, will be eligible to receive guaranteed income as part of a new pilot program over the next two years.

    Compton Mayor Aja Brown announced Monday that The Compton Pledge, a landmark guaranteed income initiative, will distribute recurring, direct cash relief to approximately 800 low-income residents for two years, starting in late 2020.

    It’s the largest city-led guaranteed income program in the U.S. to date and comes amid a nationwide reckoning on racial injustice and inequality. According to the city, all funds are being raised privately in partnership with the Jain Family Institute, an applied research group, and the Fund for Guaranteed Income, a registered public charity launched to steward guaranteed income as a path to racial justice.

    Those who were formally incarcerated, as well as illegal immigrants, are eligible for the program and may receive regular cash payments worth at least hundreds of dollars.

    Patrisse Cullors, an advocate of the Compton Pledge and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, said, “guaranteed income is an urgent and necessary strategy for addressing the economic realities of racial injustice. I’m thrilled Mayor Brown and Compton are leading the way in this growing national movement.”

    Brown said her own household growing up could have benefited from a guaranteed income program, as her mother was forced to move around frequently if unplanned expenses or emergencies arose.

    “People in our community are going through tough times, and I know that guaranteed income could give people a moment to navigate their situation, and have some breathing room to go back to school, explore a new career path, spend time with their children, or improve their mental and emotional wellbeing,” Brown said in a statement. “Ensuring all people are able to live with dignity is something we should all strive for in America.”

    Under the program, a pre-verified group of low-income residents will be notified of their selection and begin receiving cash transfers shortly thereafter. Recipients will be able to choose between multiple payment options to best suit their needs. The city said the situation in Compton “acutely faces many of the issues that have defined a national conversation about racial injustice and structural inequality.”

    Out of the city’s some 95,000 residents, about 30% are Black and 68% are Latino. About one in five residents live in poverty, which is double the nationwide average. Unemployment has risen by 21.9% since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and a growing number of residents regularly rely on food pantries.
    How did it work out?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    How did it work out?
    My Google-Fu isn't being productive?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    How did it work out?
    https://2urbangirls.com/compton-tops...straight-year/

    State auditors have named the city of Compton as the riskiest city in the state. Compton has earned this designation for the last three years. The city faults the untimely filing of the City’s audited financial statements, which has occurred dating back to 2011.

    Under the previous administration, the city failed to file audited financial statements which caused their credit ratings to be suspended.

    Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services suspended its long-term and underlying rating on lease revenue, water and sewer bonds issued by Compton due to the lack of an opinion on the city’s 2011 audit.
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    Of course the MSM paints the rosiest picture they can, it sounds like it hasn't helped the recipients.

    While he used few bucks from Compton Pledge for a fried rice dinner, the rest of it went to more pressing causes: a $250 car diagnostic tool enabling him to take on more mechanic jobs, a college textbook for his 23-year-old stepdaughter Lesley, a few hundred dollars sent to his ailing mother in Guatemala, and payments towards a $3,000 payday loan that has accrued nearly $1,000 in interest fees in less than two years. The extra financial padding hasn’t kept him from needing to work, even through severe pain caused by his gout flare-ups. Leo, who does not have health insurance due to his immigration status, now also faces the daunting prospect of paying down a $10,612.80 hospital bill after a recent emergency room visit for chest pains that a physician linked to stress.
    But it has been a good stepping stone for the person who initiated it. If there is anything billionaires love, it's starting "charities" which they control, which eventually are funded by taxpayers.

    Soon-Shiong, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, initially planned to launch the Fund for Guaranteed income after completing her thesis on cash transfer systems in India. But the pandemic made her realize people much closer to home needed help—and fast.

    “It really felt like there were not enough people thinking about the solution,” Soon-Shiong, the daughter of billionaire business tycoon and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, tells TIME from her spacious West Hollywood apartment. “But a lot of people talking about the problem.”
    https://time.com/6097523/compton-uni...-basic-income/
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    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jewwa View Post
    I'm going to cry. I'm happy Compton is thinking about the people in the state who don't have enough money. She realized a need for extra income, especially with the pandemic, which led to a record-high number of unemployed people.
    Jesus $#@!ing Christ...bad enough we have to deal with brain dead Marxist zombies for real, now we get Marxist bots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Artificial INTELLIGENCE...you're doing it wrong.
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    We believe our lying eyes...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    Of course the MSM paints the rosiest picture they can, it sounds like it hasn't helped the recipients.
    ...
    payments towards a $3,000 payday loan that has accrued nearly $1,000 in interest fees in less than two years
    That was the best example they could find, and it's someone who takes out loans from loan sharks. Sorry, no amount of monthly payments will ever cure that problem. Fools and their money are soon parted.
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    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
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