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City News Service, Oct. 29, 2021 via iHeart.com/KFI; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Applications open for LA's basic guaranteed income program

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LOS ANGELES, California - Starting today, Angelenos citywide can apply for the city's guaranteed basic income pilot program, which will give $1,000 a month to 3,000 households for a year.

The nearly $40 million BIG:LEAP (Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot) program is the largest of its kind in the United States.

“Its name perfectly captures what we're doing here in L.A. because we're taking a big leap forward in our generational fight to end poverty, to break the back of our addiction to poverty here in America,'' Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday.

Los Angeles' BIG:LEAP program's application process opened Friday, and people will have until Nov. 7 to apply. People can apply at bigleap.lacity.org. More information is available from Councilman Curren Price's District Office at 323-846-2651.

Only households with at least one child dependent will be considered, and recipients must live in the city of Los Angeles, be over the age of 18, and have an income at or below the federal poverty line. They also must have experienced economic or medical hardship related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than a quarter of the recipients will come from Price's District 9. More

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