Columnist Roy S. Johnson takes a look at what it's really like living on guaranteed income.
Enter your email to subscribe to Roy’s weekly newsletter, The Barbershop:Growing up in the northeast Birmingham neighborhood called Center Point, she wanted to be a teacher. As she grew older, she was drawn to medicine, to becoming a pediatrician, specifically — until watching “Grey’s Anatomy,” the long-running, multilayered Shonda Rhimes television series, shifted her dream. “That got me thinking about surgeons,” Ford says.
— needs a bit of a rebrand. Who wouldn’t want a bit of extra cash every month? Unstrung cash. The concept has been around for a few years now and tried in a few cities. Supporters believe a preponderance of Americans is living on the economic edge. They’re working — or trying. Though maybe they can’t afford childcare. Or they lack reliable transportation.The few extra dollars pull them from the brink. They’ll use them wisely, to fill a necessary need.
“Three out of four families in Alabama have a female breadwinner,” says Women’s Foundation of Alabama President/CEO Melanie Bridgeforth. “Yet women — the very backbone of our communities — are the most likely to be underemployed, underpaid, and lacking adequate work supports such as childcare, paid leave, and healthcare. These realities are especially harsh for single mothers, who make up 60% of Birmingham’s population.
Birmingham's Miyah Ford was among 110 single mothers who received an unrestricted $375 monthly for a year. It kept her from tumbling over the economic edge, just as guaranteed income has done for other Americans. It helped her two oldest to enjoy Christmas.
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