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Opinion: How a basic income would help close the racial wealth gap and give Americans needed financial security

On my commute to City Hall in Atlanta, I pass $1 million duplexes next to the largest block of Section 8 housing in the Southeast United States. This is Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward — where I live and serve as its representative on the city council…(click here)

Mayor Bottoms, Councilmember Farokhi explore guaranteed income for citizens

Last month, Dist. 2 Atlanta City Councilmember Amir Farokhi announced the formation of a task force about a possible guaranteed basic income program and other economic inequality measures targeting the Old Fourth Ward…(click here)

Task force to assess guaranteed income

District 2 Council member Amir Farokhi has launched a task force to consider how a guaranteed income program and other policy ideas could help reduce economic inequality in Atlanta, particularly in the Old Fourth Ward…(click here)

Associate professor appointed to Economic Security Task Force in Atlanta

Bettina Love, an associate professor in the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education’s department of educational theory and practice, was recently appointed to serve on the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force…(click here)

Economic Security Task Force Launched in Atlanta to Design Basic Income Pilot

The current public health and economic crises have revealed the fragility and failures of our economic system in unprecedented ways. However, prior to the pandemic many Americans, including Atlanta residents, did not need a crisis to highlight the urgency and scale of our country’s growing income inequality because they live it every day...(click here)

Atlanta City Council Member Amir Farokhi Launches Guaranteed Income Initiative in Old Fourth Ward

ATLANTA — City Council member Amir Farokhi announced today the launch of the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force, the same week as the Juneteenth holiday. The initiative brings together 28 local and national stakeholders, who, over the course of six months, will produce recommendations to address persistent wealth inequity and insecurity…(click here)