The City of Austin is looking at giving 85 people $1,000 each month. It's part of a Guaranteed Income program they're testing out to help struggling residents.
will decide if it wants to move forward with a guaranteed income pilot program. If approved, the program will be the first of its kind in city history.Council authorized $1.1 million in funding for the program over the summer.
District 7 Council Member Leslie Pool was the only council member to vote against the budget amendment. In a statement Monday, Pool told FOX 7 Austin "I am fully supportive of a federal guaranteed income program; I see it as a natural extension of public support programs that have assisted people since Frances Perkins brought the Social Security initiative forward as FDR’s Secretary of Labor more than 85 years ago.
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