In nine days, 100 low-income entrepreneurs from Ann Arbor, Michigan, are slated to receive monthly stipends of $528 through the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor program.
Facilitated by the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team, this two-year experimental project launched its payment disbursements in January for previously chosen participants. Kristin Seefeldt, Poverty Solutions’s associate director, told the Washington Examiner that payments would be distributed on the 15th of every month, with adjustments made for weekends or holidays.
“This guaranteed income pilot is about celebrating residents who do much to strengthen our community but are still struggling to make ends meet,” Seefeldt said.
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The guaranteed income money was open to those who identified as an “entrepreneur, owner of a formal or informal small business, independent contractor, provide paid
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