Rochester to join NY localities offering guaranteed basic income
“Rochester is set to become the latest in a handful of localities across New York state to offer some form of guaranteed basic income.
The targeted, test project would run two years, providing $500 monthly payments to 175 families the first year, and a different 175 the second year. City Council unanimously approved the measure on Tuesday.
Rochester joins Ithaca, Hudson, Mount Vernon, and Ulster County, among the Empire State municipalities that either have launched or are working toward a guaranteed basic income program. The proposal, offered up by former-Mayor Lovely Warren in the waning days of her administration, would be funded with $2 million from the city’s federal allotment of American Rescue Plan Act dollars.”