Sacramento County guaranteed basic income program to benefit Black, Native American families in need
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 17, 2024
SACRAMENTO — Sacramento County will launch a pilot program aimed at helping African American and Native American families in poverty.
The program experiments with guaranteed basic income – $725 a month – but even the most skeptical members of the county Board of Supervisors want the public to rethink the concept this time.
County supervisor Sue Frost wasn't initially sold on the program.
"When I first heard the words 'guaranteed income,' my little conservative red flags started to go up," she said at a board meeting on Tuesday.
However, Frost found that the . . .
