The nonprofit Monument Impact on Thursday kicked off the city of Concord’s first guaranteed income program called ELEVATE Concord, in partnership with and funded by the city.
Monument Impact, which is based on Concord, selected 120 families living on modest incomes to participate, many of whom are renters of color.
Each family will receive $500 each month in direct, unrestricted cash assistance for one year to help cover necessities like rent, food, utilities and whatever is important to sustain their families and build financial security.
The families received their first payment this month. Monument Impact said in a statement that it’s in “a unique position to administer the program due to our long-held trust in the community.”
“Independent, peer-reviewed academic research demonstrates that families who receive cash support via guaranteed income use it on food, utilities, transportation and other essential needs,” Monument Impact said in the statement. “These families also benefit from improved financial, physical and emotional health, with the ability to build up savings, along with a decrease in anxiety and depression.”
Concord joins a number of other Northern California municipalities offering guaranteed income programs, including Marin County, San Francisco and Stockton.
To evaluate project outcomes, Monument Impact is partnering with Dr. Rosa Maria Sternberg, an assistant adjunct professor at University of California, San Francisco.
Monument Impact said, “Now is the time for private donors and policymakers to act. Monument Impact received more applications than we had funding for, signaling the need for investment from private philanthropy and policymakers. ELEVATE Concord aims to inspire more investment in other programs that center racial and economic equity.”
To donate to the program, contact Julia Quintaro, ELEVATE Concord program manager at Monument Impact, at julia@monumentimpact.org.
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I would never donate to a group that gives out a gauranteed income to someone who is not putting in effort. I would also not be willing to support someone who is using to build up their savings by decreasing mine, nor would I support this money going to an illegal alien.
This program sounds raciest to me.I guess Caucasian people don’t count.Get out in the world and earn your way.
giving someone something they did not earn will not foster independance, it will ensure dependence….real dumb concept here
Guaranteed income yes! Join the group “Claycordians First! ”
Your tax dollars at work… “city of Concord partners with”???? don’t we already have welfare? “used to be part of my life when s#!t hit the fan” but was simply help not guaranteed income… “maybe it is a point of view thing” The made a drug for me….it was called “getoffyoura$$adone” Worked well!
Hey remember McDonalds pays $20 per hr now! “just being sarcastic now”
youre right if fast food pays so much now there should not be any poor people in the ghettto but this contradicts their big accompishment and still they wont work…..
$20.00 per hour will exclude recipients from other programs if they work full time and are income based programs.
“Didn’t need no welefare state, everybody pulled their weight, gee our old La Salle ran great, those were the days!!!”
I miss All In The Family.
Get real. 🙄That was 50 years ago when a modest income could support an entire family. Nowadays people working two jobs have to decide between food OR housing.
And that only affect people of color?🤦♀️
May, the song is about American life during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Herbert Hoover was president, and the last La Salle was made was in 1940.
I watch it every Sunday night on Me TV at 7:00. Those were the days my friend.
It has been successful elsewhere. Glad to know the program is offered here.
Successful? How so?
Successful in taking from those that work for a living, and giving it to those don’t.
Someone is showing their true colors.
Where …
Define successful ?
Double down with Fred here “Define successful?” Please show your work here (examples) and not just the touchy/feelly thoughts a utopian wonderland. We are taught to help our fellow man but also if our fellow man will not respond then they are on their own.
I suppose that you will be donating then. Yes?
Guaranteed income only instills dependence on the government or charity that supplies the free money.
Such dependents inslaves the people who recieve the money.
Our future in a nutshell, enslaved poverty for all, controled by government endtities.
It actually boosts the economy because poor people spend that money immediately on food, tuition, basic goods, transportation or medical care.
Or they spend the money on Hostess cupcakes, Coca-Cola, other junk food, a trip to the local cannabis dispenery, or whatever. Money spent/given without oversight is money down the drain. Just like many of the CA programs.
Oh, ands let’s all donate to this? Send in the clowns….No wait, they’re already here.
Why do you think rich people’s spending and investments don’t promote economic activity?
Youre special…they spend at 7-11 and Taco Bell.
food tuition basic goods transportation and medical care IS ALL FREE for poor people.
what planet are you talking about?
Or spend on booze, candy, drugs, etc.
May obviously works for the non profit/for profit sponsoring this!
It would boost the economy if the people who actually earned the money spent it on food, tuition, basic goods, transportation or medical care.
Hair extensions, nails and cigarettes do not qualify as basic goods and medical care. And boosting the economy from donated money is an equal process, you spend your money one place or the other (fools argument). Do you really believe it is actually helping someone up? There has been programs for my entire life set to help people up and I am just guessing here (do your own research “not headline research”) but the overwhelming majority use this as a crutch not a leg up.
Would be interested in commonalities of recipients level of education (last grade completed), list of proficient job skills, number of children. Could well be there are more than a few things the families have in common.
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Is goal of experiment to prove a base level of income is a “basic right ?
Where can I get me one of these applications?
I hope they are not giving money to employable people. $500 is not going to allow someone to save money. This will help the 125 families but is not a sustainable idea. Sort of strange
If they spend the money on tuition or learning skills for a better job that’s definitely better than what you think the outcome will be.
That’s a big “IF”.
than make it only good for tuition and learning skills.
I didn’t say what the outcome will be but I doubt there will be learning skills and tuition. It would be interesting to know what sort of family situations are receiving the money.
Straight Marxism
Straight democrat vote buying, too.
It’s easy to give away someone else’s money (taxpayers) and boot the creators/politicians out of office. There are already existing government subsidies for the poor. Why do we need to create more entitlements?
Almost everything you guys say is true. But I still don’t have a problem with this. Do it.
hookers and blow.
Giving people money that have shown they can’t manage money is foolishness. My first question would be “why are you living in literally one of the most expensive places in the US?” Since they are clearly underemployed, why not move to an affordable city in another state and actually IMPROVE your quality of life? Staying here because this is where you’re from, or you have family here or friends, isn’t a good enough reason. Dig yourself out of the hole completely and move somewhere where you can live. You don’t have a right to live wherever you’d like, you live where you can thrive. Joe says the unemployment rate is lower than it’s ever been in recorded history, move to Elko and deliver pizzas or be a laborer there. If you’re not completely inept, you will probably have some money in savings by this time next year.
The $500 should only be accepted at U-Haul and Chevron.
they live here just for the free stuff
other states make you work
If the grant goes to the elderly, I would support this. If it goes to the lazy, forget it. Teach a man to fish!!
Once again double down on Fred
Did the taxpayers in Concord ever have a say in this handout?
I’ll bet the city council will “issue a statement” saying that it’s within their prerogative to disburse funds as they see fit to “improve quality of life”… or some such BS that says nothing.
they will spend the money on rims for the Escalade and $2100 Timberline boots.
oops $200 boots.
So the city council is taking our tax money and giving it away to people. This is insanity. I didn’t vote for this. Give it to everybody or give it to nobody. Some funny business going on here.
Vote buying plain and simple!
Time to drain the concord swamp – and the neutered staff.
I guess that means that the poorly maintained streets in Concord will remain. This program
will grow all over the state, as the bleeding hearts will continue to tax and spend for their Marxist
ideals.
I wonder how many are recent arrivals from the loose southern border? You know, the one that
Jobama Obiden opened up.
Absolutely racist….. where is the funding really coming from? …. us!
“Monument Impact, which is based on Concord, selected 120 families living on modest incomes to participate, many of whom are renters of color.” The monies should only be taken from the families of the same color if that’s how it goes – not the working, or retired tax paying people.
You can see what a socialist government does to people. It divides them.
Wait till you see Fascists unleashed Ricardoh, it’ll curl your toes. 🫣🇺🇸
This will be spent on drugs and expensive clothing and video games. Only in California with something like this be approved.
I bet most of the people benefiting from this guaranteed income are Hispanics, most of whom identify as white.
The City of Concord (CA) website states the average residential income for 2023 is $85K. How many Hispanics and Caucasians living in the Monument Corridor earn as much? Probably very few.
And really now, how many black people live in Concord? Uh-huh, very few. 4.5% of Concord’s population, or 4.5K people.
So all of you Claycordians who keep trumpeting that only “POC” (code for black people) are getting this $500 monthly stipend are just plain wrong.
Atticus please tell us the 25 point NSDP plan of 1920 since you know so much mr Dollar store historian. Stop LARPing like you know history. You are another believer of Hegelian dialect just another cosmopolitan.
“Funded by the city of Concord..” means the taxpayers paid for it. Question for the city council – exactly when did residents approve taxes being used for this guaranteed income?
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I notice that nobody from the city is responding….
“Monument Impact received more applications than we had funding for, signaling the need for investment from private philanthropy and policymakers”
No s**t, Sherlock.
This is what I received from the city regarding this matter.
City dedicated a total of $1.5 million of one-time funding on this program. The funds came from the American Rescue Plan Act.
You can find more information here (item 9.a): https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=939&doctype=1
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