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Cambridge will pilot a guaranteed income program, doling out $500 no-strings-attached monthly payments to 120 eligible, low-income families for 18 months starting in August.
Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui announced the Cambridge Recurring Income for Success and Empowerment project at a press conference Thursday. Single caretaker households who fall below 80 percent of the median area income and have a child under 18 are eligible to enroll in the program. The University of Pennsylvaniaâs Center for Guaranteed Income Research, which is advising the city on the new program, will select 120 families who fit that criteria through a lottery.
Siddiqui called the program âa financial vaccineâ to protect low-income Cambridge residents, many of whom have been hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.
Cambridge Chief Public Health Officer Claude Jacob said local vaccination efforts remain hampered by supply shortages, despite federally run sites having recently received more doses.
Jacob presented the update during the weekly Covid-19 pandemic response at a meeting of the city council Monday.
The state has recently increased supply to mass vaccination sites, such as the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, in order to bolster rollout, according to Jacob.
“The vaccine supply coming into the Commonwealth continues to increase, with much of the additional supply going to federally run programs at the area pharmacies and the FEMA program that’s anchored at the Hynes Convention Center,” Jacob said.