Enterprise article dated February 12, 2021
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy
Some of Yolo County’s poorest families with young children will receive a hand up and out of poverty through a universal basic income pilot project approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
The 31 families in the CalWORKS Housing Support Program who have children under the age of 2 will receive monthly payments for a year, up to a maximum of $12,155.
That cash assistance, combined with the CalWORKS grant they already receive to help with housing and other costs, would bring these families’ incomes above California’s minimum poverty threshold ($25,658 for a family of four), according to Nolan Sullivan of the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency.
The CalWORKS Housing Support Program provides a state grant to assist families who are homeless or about to be homeless.
“Those kids are in the deepest poverty, the most at risk, the most needing of our help across the county,” Sullivan told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
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