doesn't this put them over the welfare income guidelines???
Posted on 10/17/2018 4:28:18 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Jackson, MS, is once again modeling radical Black love for the nation with a pioneering basic income program that will give fifteen Black mothers living in subsidized housing $1000 every month for the next year. The initiative, Magnolia Mother’s Trust, is spearheaded by Springboard to Opportunities, in partnership with Economic Security Project, and “will be the first [guaranteed income initiative] that specifically targets extremely low-income families headed by an African American female living in affordable housing in the United States,” according to Springboard’s website.
Citing “Becoming Visible,” a 2017 report published by Springboard and Washington, D.C.-based policy research group New America, Mississippi Today reports:
In Mississippi, just 5,682 low-income families received benefits under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the program sometimes derided as welfare, in 2016, even though one-in-five Mississippians live in poverty. Mississippi’s monthly benefit for those who receive basic assistance is $170, compared to $442 nationally. In 2016, just 1.4 percent of new applicants for welfare were approved. The state has strict employment and drug testing requirements for TANF.
Poverty, disease-care, failing schools, scarce access to reproductive health options, and the crushing weight of white supremacy are not new conditions for many Black Mississippians and they are not yet past. Still, from Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, to the Deacons for Defense and Justice, Black people have always fought to create systemic and institutional changes that reflect the beauty and resilience of the communities that birthed us.
“We believe all people have the strength and capacity to be the authors of their own lives,” writes Aisha Nyandoro (pictured above), CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, in a guest column for the Clarion-Ledger. “And just as so many women did during the civil rights movement, they have the capacity to write a better story for their communities and, ultimately, for Mississippi.”
In an exclusive interview with ESSENCE, Nyandoro said that “we must rewrite the system” that has sought to bury us beneath the rubble of capitalism.
“This program is radical and women driven,” Nyandoro told ESSENCE. “Black women are—falsely—labeled ‘welfare queens’ and dehumanized just for trying to survive in a system constructed for us to fail—and it’s not like foundations are lining up to give money to Black women.”
I call shenanigans on that nonsense. There were at least 400 such in my apartment complex in Biloxi.
Unfortunately you are right. It’s happened too many times to believe it’s going to be different THIS time.
It’s just getting SO old.
It will end on November 7th . . .
Get they herr derd.
"Falsely", eh?
Uh huh.
Yeah, like that getting-a-job stuff. And actually marrying the father of your kids. Maybe even not HAVING kids until you can support them. You know, THAT kind of "supremacy."
By the way, who is funding this Santa Claus program? Elves? Or would that be the white majority who actually work and pay taxes?
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....
doesn't this put them over the welfare income guidelines???
Or...they just could have tried to not have babies. They could have been taught to respect themselves. They could have been taught that the world doesn’t owe them a living.
And now that my initial rant is out here, I’m going to go investigating. Thanks for the post.
Why do I suspect despite the organizations’ names, there’s somehow taxpayer dollars in there?
Don’t give them ill gotten free cash.
Give them a special badge that they can just take what they want from Walmart.
Universal Basic Welfare.
We actually have Democrat adults in America who never earned anything they have, and took the food others created and ate it.
And we have 4000 more caravanning in the USA.
Does the Springboard and Washington, D.C.-based policy research group look into the role of the father? Are they trying to get the fathers involved? Are they providing a means for the families to access churches and religious organizations?
Having a father figure or the father in the home is crucial to success.
I just wonder what the policy research group's contract looks like. What is their funding source? Who are the decision makers and what is their mission?
Given the low unemployment numbers for blacks, is it not time to put families back together? Are the single moms being encouraged to stay single? What is the policy for absentee fathers?
wonder what would happen if a 58 y.o. white man who self identifies as a poor black woman showed up to get a the $1000 a month check? are these people racist, bigoted, homophobic or would they give him the check?
It’s just an enormous raise in TANF which IS WELFARE cash assistance.
Nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program. Not to mention the spike in new mothers sure to come.
It will cause her low income rent to be raised, her food stamps will be reduced and she will be no better off than she was before the increase.
A thousand dollars per month is barely enough to live on, especially when you have children.
It’s barely enough for a single adult.
Might as well set the money on fire. And since it’s coming from a private source, I don’t really care.
Excellent point!!!!!!
welfare fraud
Anytime you take away any type of bennies, you will have hell to pay.
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