California will send monthly checks to adults exiting the state’s foster care system under a first-of-its-kind guaranteed income plan approved Thursday by lawmakers. Read the full story here: California Lawmakers Approve Nation’s 1st Basic Income Plan | Courthouse News Service
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Lawmakers in California, in bipartisan votes, unanimously approved the nation's first state-funded guaranteed income program—providing $35 million that will be used to pay qualifying pregnant state residents and young adults who have recently left foster care.
Universal basic income was championed by Martin Luther King Jr., promoted by Silicon Valley citizens as the “social vaccine for the 21st century” and endorsed by 2016 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, but the notion of government-guaranteed payments to residents has never really caught on.
California lawmakers on Thursday approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the U.S., committing $35 million for monthly cash payments to qualifying expectant mothers and young adults who recently left foster care with no restrictions on how they spend it.
Throughout some parts of Santa Clara County you may have come across trash and debris around state highways and on some streets abandoned vehicles left behind.
Veronica Vieyra is no stranger to the bottom falling out.
A new plan in the state budget could help save the lives of wildlife while also saving millions of dollars in damage ever year in California.
You've seen the viral videos that look more like a Disney movie.
A coyote and a badger, two unlikely friends out for a stroll in a protected pathway made specifically for wildlife.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail service will resume at the end of July, the agency said on Thursday, weeks after a disgruntled employee gunned down co-workers at a VTA light rail yard in the worst mass shooting in Bay Area history.