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A guaranteed income program designed by and for Black women.

When Michelle Lockhart was a teenager in Atlanta, she had to work two jobs — as a camp counselor and fast-food worker — to take care of her family…

“Black women are among the most likely groups to experience cash shortfalls that make covering basic needs difficult…”

Fifty-five years ago, as he was ramping up what would become the Poor People’s Campaign, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. slammed the government’s approach…

In Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, the neighborhood where Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up and later preached, 37% of Black children live in poverty…

A new guaranteed income program will send $850 monthly payments to Black women over two years, beginning in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward…

A new guaranteed income pilot will give hundreds of dollars per month to poor Black women in Georgia in an effort to improve their financial stability…

In Her Hands is a partnership between the Georgia Resilience & Opportunity (GRO) Fund and GiveDirectly who are planning to supply 650 Black women across Georgia with $850 per month over the course of two years.

Joe Fryer is joined by Hope Wollensack, Executive Director of The Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund, to discuss a new program that will provide direct monthly cash payments to over six hundred Black women in MLK Jr.’s former neighborhood.

For the next two years, 650 Black women across Georgia will get an extra $850 each month as part of one of the nation's largest guaranteed income experiments as communities try new ways to close the wealth gap.