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$1,000 a Month, No Strings Attached [washingtonpost.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/3/196:51 AM

By Robert Samuels, The Washington Post, August 31, 2019

Cheryl Gray had sat through so many presentations about programs to lift herself out of poverty that she could practically recite all the advice. But the one she heard last November seemed too generous to be true.

A nonprofit organization was looking to give 20 African American single mothers living in public housing $1,000 each month for a year. They’d be able to use the money in any way they pleased.

“I could do anything?” Gray, a 25-year-old single mother of two, recalled thinking, because this was not the way assistance programs typically worked.

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