One city in California plans to give universal basic income (UBI) to transgender and nonbinary residents, regardless of their income. With no strings attached, residents in Palm Springs, California, who fit these criteria are eligible for up to $900 a month just for identifying as transgender or nonbinary.
After a unanimous vote last week by Palm Springs City Council, there is now $20,000 set aside for this pilot program.
According to Fox 13, twenty transgender and nonbinary Palm Springs residents will receive the free money funded by the taxpayers for 18 months, with advocacy-based health center DAP Health and LGBT advocacy group Queer Works managing the program. Palm Springs mayor Lisa Middleton, who is transgender, says she believes a UBI program is a "county, state, and federal responsibility," not a "municipal" one.
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