Fresno's first guaranteed income program will hand out 900,000 to poor families

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno County's archetypal guaranteed income programme launched connected Monday giving 150 fortunate families a monthly boost to their income.

The Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission says the poverty-fighting inaugural utilized a lottery strategy to randomly prime 150 qualified families who applied to the programme from Southwest Fresno and Huron.

The selected families received their archetypal of 12 monthly payments of $500 connected Monday.

Fresno EOC officials accidental Southwest Fresno and Huron were chosen due to the fact that the 2 areas person immoderate of the highest levels of concentrated poorness successful Fresno, with implicit 30% of residents experiencing fiscal hardship.

“Economic information and dignity are indispensable to wellness, and guaranteed income programs support radical and families from fiscal distress by ensuring they person funds to enactment toward what they cognize they need, we look guardant to learning from Fresno and different communities however these programs nexus to improved wellness and wellness.”

To suffice for the programme applicants indispensable be:

• An big implicit 18
• Reside successful the 93706 oregon 93234 zip codes
• Be large oregon person a kid 5 years aged oregon younger
• Have an income that is 80% oregon little of the Area Medium Income.

Advancing Fresno County Guaranteed Income volition observe the motorboat of the programme connected Wednesday astatine the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission Local Conservation Corps. The lawsuit starts astatine 10 a.m.