Bard alumna Emily Wolff ’10
Wolff, director of the Mayor’s Office of Youth and Families for the City of New Orleans, explains a new guaranteed income pilot program targeting “opportunity youth”: young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither in school nor working. City officials are looking to direct, recurring cash payments as a potential way to help them reconnect. In the true spirit of guaranteed income, there will be no restrictions on how the money can be spent. “The undergirding value of this whole program,” says Wolff, “is trusting people to make financial decisions that are going to be in their best interest.”
Post Date: 04-06-2021