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Santa Clara County to Launch Basic Income Pilot for Homeless High School Seniors

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Basic income: Santa Clara County will launch a pilot program in April 2023 providing $1,000 a month for 5 months to homeless high school seniors in an effort to ease their transition into higher education or work opportunities.

Santa Clara County will soon launch a pilot program to bring financial support to unhoused high school seniors after the county's Board of Supervisors unanimously approved it Tuesday.

From April to August 2023, the program will send out unconditional payments of $1,000 a month to homeless students in their final year of high school in an effort to ease their transition into higher education or work opportunities. Introduced by Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, the proposal localizes state Sen. Dave Cortese's failed bill, Senate Bill 1341. If passed, the bill introduced in February would have financially supported homeless teenagers in their last five months of high school.

The hope was to combat the 15,000 unhoused seniors in California from slipping further into poverty without proper financial resources -- something Cortese refers to as the"summer melt."

 

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