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Home Front: Politix
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter signs executive order that provides guaranteed income for families in need
2020-09-04
[KSTP] On Thursday, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter signed Executive Order 2020-24 that authorizes the creation of the People's Prosperity Pilot, St. Paul's Guaranteed Income Demonstration Program.

A release from the mayor's office states the program is led by the Office of Financial Empowerment. The People's Prosperity Pilot will provide up to 150 St. Paul families with $500 a month in guaranteed income for a period of up to 18 months.

The projected budget of up to $1.5 million will be supported through the Mayors For Guaranteed Income national network, philanthropy, and city of St. Paul CARES funds. Households will be randomly selected from CollegeBound St. Paul families from the city's most racially diverse and lowest wealth neighborhoods.

St. Paul city councilmember Mitra Jalali said of the program, "the scale of how game-changing that would be, is not insignificant to those families it could put actual lives on a different path for the better."
Posted by:Fred

#8  Money for Nothing ... and the chicks for free.
Posted by: Glenmore   2020-09-04 20:55  

#7  Perpetual Motion Discovered! Money for Nothing.
Posted by: magpie   2020-09-04 19:39  

#6  I self identify as a person in need resident of St Paul. As they say in Cabaret. "Money, money money"🎶🎶🎶
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2020-09-04 17:33  

#5  Rewarded for being "in need" will attract people who need and push away those who create surplus.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-09-04 12:22  

#4  Diversity! Take, say, Passaic,
Whose close-ups are, sadly, prosaic:
Instead of smooth shading
With boundaries fading,
Its structure is starkly mosaic.
Posted by: Oming Shusosing6115   2020-09-04 11:21  

#3  "most racially diverse neighborhoods" = least racially diverse
Posted by: Thravising Angaitle5247   2020-09-04 05:41  

#2  Love the pic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-09-04 05:23  

#1  The projected budget of up to $1.5 million will be supported through the Mayors For Guaranteed Income national network, philanthropy, and city of St. Paul CARES funds.

OMG, pass the popcorn please.
Posted by: gorb   2020-09-04 01:55  

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