Democratic Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan unveiled a few initiatives during his pre-recorded Facebook address.
“In 2021, Ulster County will become one of the first in the country to undertake a large-scale universal basic income pilot program,” says Ryan.
Through a partnership between Project Resilience, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley and Ulster Savings Bank, Ulster County will be providing 100 qualifying households with direct relief payments of $500 a month for a year, funded through community donations. He announced other initiatives as part of his Green New Deal for Ulster County.
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Durham may give formerly incarcerated residents $500 per month in guaranteed income Charlie Innis, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Feb. 4 DURHAM At least 55 formerly incarcerated Durham residents could get $500 a month for a year as part of a guaranteed income pilot program, City Council member Mark-Anthony Middleton said Thursday.
Last month Mayor Steve Schewel announced that Durham will likely get a share of a $15 million grant that Twitter s chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey, had contributed to Mayors for Guaranteed Income, a group advocating for such programs across the country.
The city passed a resolution Thursday to pledge its support for a program at the local and national levels.
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Feb 01, 2021
Coronavirus vaccine hesitancy is surprisingly high among health care workers. Could cash incentives help?
Oak Valley Hospital District is offering its employees a $300 bonus to get vaccinated. The independent hospital in Oakdale, California, decided to implement a financial incentive after only 40% of its 600 employees initially turned up to get the shot. Since offering money to those who get the second dose of the vaccine, the hospital has reported a noticeable increase in the number of workers getting vaccinated.
The approval of COVID-19 vaccines may represent a huge stride in the battle against a virus that has killed more than 437,000 people in the U.S., but to work effectively to bring the pandemic under control means getting a large proportion of the population to take it. The logistics of conducting widespread vaccinations are staggering, and to make the challenge greater, many people are hesitant to take the vaccines including the health care worker
In Martin Luther King Jr. s 1967 book
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? the civil rights leader discussed how to best address poverty in the United States. I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income, he wrote.
King was not the first to propose a guaranteed income; political philosophers from Montesque to Thomas Paine also penned their support for what is often referred to as universal basic income. And the idea was recently re-popularized by former Democratic presidential candidate and current New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.