By EJ
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Long Beach is getting ready to kick off a new guaranteed income program for 500 residents in the 90813 zip code.
According to Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, the new initiative will provide 500 residents with $500 in guaranteed income for a year.
“Our guaranteed income program will help single parents and families with direct assistance and basic needs in a community that has long struggled with poverty,” Garcia said in a statement. “The research collected from this pilot will help us build a national case for these programs across the country and our city.”
So who qualifies? The participants selected for the pilot program will mostly include single-parent households that earn under the poverty line.
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