Albuquerque City Council agrees to use weed tax revenue for basic income pilot
April 18, 2025
Council agrees to use weed tax revenue basic income pilot program
Council agrees to use weed tax revenue basic income pilot program
With federal funding for guaranteed income spent, a committee will determine what’s next for the county program.
In the midst of it all and just 29 years old, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
BHA’s new “Resident Opportunity Initiative” is an expansion of its existing “Self Sufficiency Program” which is geared toward helping residents establish long-term financial stability.
If we are to find alternative ways to tackle poverty, we need to be able to test ideas like UBI efficiently and effectively.
“It’s based on the mindset,” he said. “It’s not how little I’m getting, but what I do with what I have.”
Through a lottery, the Pomona Household Universal Grant Program (HUG) will choose 600 eligible residents and assign them to two groups — a paid group and a control group.
The program is now three quarters of the way done and officials say its yielding a 324% return on investment.
