With BIG: LEAP, some 3,200 low-income Angelenos will get $1,000 every month for one year. Georgia Horton, a recipient of the Compton Pledge, is worried about what comes next for those who will come to depend on that money.
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For five years, Georgia Horton had worked to rebuild her life, no easy task for a Black woman who spent years in prison.
She found an apartment in Compton. She started working as a motivational speaker and evangelist. She wrote a book. She found her home church. But, in just one day, it almost all fell apart again.
In December, Horton found herself on the verge of eviction. She was hopelessly behind on her rent, her income gutted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The odd jobs she was doing to make up for lost speaking gigs, particularly at shuttered prisons, detention facilities and community centers, were no longer cutting it.