{"id":124694,"date":"2022-04-05T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=124694"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:56:28","slug":"california-city-plans-to-give-universal-basic-income-to-transgender-and-non-binary-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=124694","title":{"rendered":"California city plans to give universal basic income to transgender and non-binary residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Transgender-using-bathroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-118503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Transgender-using-bathroom-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Transgender-using-bathroom-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Transgender-using-bathroom-304x333.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Transgender-using-bathroom.jpg 523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Palm Springs, California, is running a pilot program that sets aside $200,000 to provide universal basic income for transgender and nonbinary residents. It does not matter what they earn. This income does not come with any strings attached. A resident can get up to $900 a month under this program.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b> From Fox News: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Queer Works CEO Jacob Rostowsky also claimed in a press release that transgender and nonbinary people &#8220;are highly marginalized in our society in general, especially economically,&#8221; and told the Desert Sun that the city of Palm Springs would have to match any state funds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our project&#8217;s budget is estimated at about $1.8 million,&#8221; Rostowsky said. &#8220;And so when we look at what other [programs] that have been successfully funded have done, their local cities have provided nearly a match to that funding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton, who is transgender, pointed to the transcript from the city council&#8217;s March 24 meeting where she &#8220;expressed strong reservations in general to guaranteed income programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I specifically stated that I did not believe such programs could scale up to adequately respond to the over 37 million Americans living below the poverty line, the over 6 million Californians or the over 400,000 in the County of Riverside living below the poverty [line],&#8221; Middleton said in an email, praising Brinkman for his work and expressing her &#8220;concern for the financial vulnerability of the transgender community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transgender Americans suffer extremely high rates of under and unemployment. Transgender Americans face enormous challenges living full and authentic lives,&#8221; the mayor said. &#8220;Those challenges have increased substantially in the past few years as transgender children and their families have been targeted by extremist legislators and governors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Middleton added she believes a UBI program is a &#8220;county, state and federal responsibility,&#8221; not a &#8220;municipal&#8221; one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has more information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-city-universal-income-transgender-residents\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm Springs, California, is running a pilot program that sets aside $200,000 to provide universal basic &hellip; <a title=\"California city plans to give universal basic income to transgender and non-binary residents\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=124694\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California city plans to give universal basic income to transgender and non-binary residents<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}