Don’t miss the upcoming DC Guaranteed Income Coalition September events. Be sure and read to the end of this newsletter! You will find the following updates:
- The special September 21 DC GI Coalition meeting that will kick off our DC Women and Guaranteed Income series.
- The upcoming DC Basic Income Day of Action September 22 screening of Storming Caesar’s Palace
- The analysis of the new federal guaranteed income proposal End Child Poverty Act and how it compares to the local District Child Tax Credit legislation
- The initiation of a new regional Fairfax County guaranteed income pilot.
- Mother’s Outreach Network’s guaranteed income pilot giving campaign through #Give8/28, a national celebration of racial justice and Black-focused giving.
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Join us for our September DC Guaranteed Income Coalition General Body Meeting, where we’ll be kicking off our D.C. Women & Guaranteed Income series. For this longer session, we will meet over Zoom and in-person, with location details to be announced.
A multi-pronged effort, our DC Women & GI program will examine and lift up the promise of guaranteed income for a broad swath of marginalized BIPOC women residents and worker communities across the District of Columbia. Our efforts seek to apply several frameworks:
- Cash as care to power a DC economy focused on the Black Women Best framework
- Cash policies that power BIPOC women workers including immigrant communities, such as Let’s GO DMV!; and
- Cash-centered policies that redefine caregiving as work to benefit women currently excluded from the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Related poverty-driven issues will be addressed, to include domestic violence, child welfare involvement, and maternal health outcomes.
To get involved in the planning table for this effort contact Melody at info@mothersoutreachnetwork.
On this day, 60 years ago…
28th August 1963: American minister and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (1929 – 1968) waves to the crowd of more than 200,000 people gathered on the Mall during the March on Washington after delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech, Washington, DC. Hulton Archive Getty Images
GUARANTEED INCOME SPOTLIGHT
Next month, Fairfax County will join the growing list of communities in the DMV that are experimenting with guaranteed income programs. In September, the County will open applications for the Fairfax County Economic Mobility Pilot, which will be providing $750/month to 180 eligible families for a total of fifteen months. The pilot, which is being funded through the County’s American Rescue Plan Act allocation, is focused on exploring the impacts of guaranteed income for families who earn too much income to be eligible for public assistance programs like TANF and SNAP, but are still struggling to make ends meet or to take the next steps towards economic mobility. The pilot will be evaluated by George Mason University to understand the payments’ impact on participants’ social and economic wellbeing. Congratulations to all our partners in Fairfax County! We can’t wait to learn from this pilot!
Join us for the 5th Annual Basic Income Day of Action and March on September 22nd. The world needs basic income, let’s spread the word and grow the movement.
Register for our film event here:
FEDERAL AND LOCAL GUARANTEED INCOME PROPOSALS COMPARED: THE END CHILD POVERTY ACT AND THE DISTRICT CHILD TAX CREDIT LEGISLATION
Read full analysis here.
Give today to support our MotherUp Pilot Program!
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom launched 60 years ago today as a turning point in the civil rights movement. It was then the issue of equality and civil rights became a national, not just a Southern issue.
Today, in the local backdrop communities of the March, in Washington DC, the struggle continues for racial economic justice. We’ve come quite far as a nation and as a city since the original March, but we have a distance yet to go for racial equity. Some 16% of Washingtonians still live in poverty and one in four children goes to bed hungry every night, most of them Black and Brown. The racial income and wealth gaps in Washington DC remain alarming.
Join our efforts to support one family in addressing their immediate basic needs. Help us reach our target of $6,000 today by #GivingBlack to Mother’s Outreach Network.
