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If passed, the ENOUGH Act commits $15 million, for areas like Brooklyn to address issues like housing, employment or healthcare.
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We'll go On the Record with the author of a study arguing that more of Maryland’s welfare funds should go to cash assistance.
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We’ll go On the Record with a Baltimore mother taking part in the city’s test of a guaranteed income. A year and a half in, what difference for two hundred families has an extra thousand-dollars-a-month made?
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The pandemic worsened America’s maternal mortality crisis, with the burden of death disproportionately felt by communities of color. We speak with an ob/gyn. Then, advocates are collecting signatures to put a baby bonus on the ballot - $1000 to new parents in Baltimore.
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We’ll go On the Record with Gov. Wes Moore, who says there is evidence behind his plan to eliminate childhood poverty in Maryland, and with a sociologist who says sustained investment in boosting poor families makes a difference.
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Advocates want free meals for all students statewide.
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We’ll go On the Record to look at the guaranteed-income plan Baltimore is testing: 200 families will receive $1,000 a month for two years - no strings attached. We hear how it will work, and what experts are learning from similar projects across the country.
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. and a Baltimore City advocate for criminal-justice reform. How do pretrial supervision fees burden people who have not been found guilty of a crime? What’s being done about it?
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The House of Delegates approved on nearly a party line vote Friday a bill that extends tax breaks to low-income immigrants despite the objections of…
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A bill extending a major poverty-fighting tool to low-income immigrants cleared an initial vote in the Maryland House of Delegates Thursday, despite…