As Twitchy announced last month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed was kicking off her Guaranteed Income for Trans People program and beginning to accept applications. “The Guaranteed Income for Trans People program will provide low-income transgender San Franciscans with $1,200 each month, for up to 18 months, to help address financial insecurity within trans communities,” Breed revealed. Suddenly, it made sense to identify as the opposite sex in San Francisco.
That wasn’t Breed’s first foray into guaranteed income, though. The Abundant Birth Project of 2021 sent $1,000 monthly checks to pregnant black and Pacific Islander women to address structural racism — and now the program is getting ready for a Supreme Court challenge. Did we say Supreme Court challenge? What we meant was it’s getting ready to roll out in several California counties.
San Francisco guaranteed income program for pregnant Black women to expand across California https://t.co/33YhlCmvK1
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 10, 2022
Fox News reports:
A guaranteed income program that provides monthly checks to Black pregnant women in San Francisco will expand to other counties in California.
The Abundant Birth Project began in June 2021 to serve pregnant women with $1,000 monthly payments over 12 months to 150 people. The program is intended to “reduce the racial birth disparities by easing economic stress.”
On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Department of Public Health announced a $5 million grant in state funding to expand the program in Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles and Riverside counties for the next two to three years.
It will serve another 425 mothers and “other birthing parents” with funds from the California Department of Social Services, the city said.
“We hope the Abundant Birth Project serves as a model to address racial birth disparities throughout the region and state, and across the country,” Breed said in a statement.
I now identify as black, a woman and pregnant. I want to be a unicorn in SF too!
— David Carder (@davecarder) December 10, 2022
Supreme Court case incoming
— Cory Mullen (@HEELS247365) December 10, 2022
I’ve an idea – make baby daddy responsible financially!
— cynthia malison (@cindy_malison) December 10, 2022
That’s one of those laws that liberals keep “threatening” conservatives with … make the father financially responsible from conception. OK.
Nope 👎
— Keith Martin (@keithmartin62) December 10, 2022
https://twitter.com/Sunni_Labeouf/status/1601589206077575168
It’s an incentive to become and/or stay poor and dependent. I could afford to live in my means in a nice 2-bed apt without government assistance, but I was denied housing because I didn’t need gov assistance. Paid more for less and struggled.
— seekingtruth (@seeking72515471) December 10, 2022
Can we just cut California off of America or something ?
— paddy o’furniture (@happymofo123) December 10, 2022
https://twitter.com/Buj_Kaizack/status/1601611045675864065
https://twitter.com/fixyourself03/status/1601516929575182336
No other colors?
— Mike Garozzo (@go_garoz) December 10, 2022
Pacific Islanders, we believe.
When you incentivize a thing, you will get that thing IN ABUNDANCE.
— Uncommon Sense (@UnncommonnSense) December 10, 2022
https://twitter.com/griffgrayson1/status/1601599916027281408
Does California not have any equality laws?
— Mick Dugdong (@mickdugdong) December 10, 2022
The Abundant Birth Project has been around for over a year now, and we have no idea how it hasn’t been shut down by the courts yet. Breed says the program helps address systemic racism, but we’d love to see her argue that in court.
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Abundant Birth Project to pay pregnant black and Pacific Islander women $1,000 a month to address structural racism https://t.co/kLBm47sAbK
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 17, 2020
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