{"id":120917,"date":"2021-03-26T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/oakland-to-give-low-income-residents-500-a-month-no-strings-attached"},"modified":"2021-03-26T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T02:22:16","slug":"oakland-to-give-low-income-residents-500-a-month-no-strings-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/oakland-to-give-low-income-residents-500-a-month-no-strings-attached","title":{"rendered":"Oakland to give low-income residents $500 a month, no strings attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oakland-to-give-low-income-residents-500-a-month-no-strings-attached2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Oakland, California, on Tuesday announced a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color in the city $500 per month with no rules on how they can spend it.<\/p>\n<p>The program is the latest experiment with a \u201cguaranteed income,\u201d the idea that giving low-income individuals a regular, monthly stipend helps ease the stresses of poverty and results in better health and upward economic mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan DeRossett.<\/p>\n<p>After two years successfully testing Oakland, California now will expand its basic income to low income residents.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Only people of color in the California city are eligible to receive the basic income, which they can spend however they see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Oakland, California, on Tuesday announced a privately funded program that will give low-income families of color in the city $500 per month with no rules on how they can spend it. The program is the latest experiment with a \u201cguaranteed income,\u201d the idea that giving low-income individuals a regular, monthly stipend helps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}