“It gave me this feeling, like we’re gonna be okay.”
spoke to a few young participants of guaranteed income pilot programs around the country about their experience receiving consistent no-strings-attached cash payments.Symphony Lee, 23, New OrleansSymphony is in her third month of a guaranteed income pilot based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Itunrestricted cash payments to young people between 16 and 24 years old who’ve graduated from high school but haven’t found steady employment and aren’t pursuing higher education.
[Guaranteed income programs are] actually helping people. It’s actually helping people get on their feet. It’s good to have some type of income that you can use, you know, for anything. Like, I’m just basically getting a free $350 to use towards anything that I need… I’m [also] gonna use the money toward more school supplies for my cosmetology journey — more clips and stuff like that.”Chanel has been part of the Abundance Birth Project’s guaranteed income program for around seven months.
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