A program begun in early 2022 to provide a solution to financial insecurity kicked off in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. This is the neighborhood in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, grew up and later preached about guaranteed income. The name of the guaranteed income initiative was inspired by a 1967 speech by the civil rights legend on the subject.
The ‘In Her Hands’ program expanded to include over 200 Black women across the Clay-Randolph-Terrell county cluster in rural southwest Georgia and then another cohort in the City of College Park. The no-strings-attached payments provide over $20,000 during a two-year period to around 650 eligible women and applications will soon be accepted for a new group of participants.
The next cohort that will be eligible to apply for the program must be residents in the Vine City and English Avenue neighborhoods. The date for applications to be submitted has not been announced yet, but will begin in April 2024 according to FOX News 5 in Atlanta. Those who are looking to apply or seeking more information for themselves or a loved one, can sign up to receive updates.
The program is directed at Black women who “are among the most likely group to experience cash shortfalls that make covering basic needs difficult,” according to the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity (GRO) Fund which launched the program in conjunction with non-profit organization ...
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