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$600 per month is changing lives in Durham
Nonprofit StepUp Durham provided data on how its guaranteed basic income program doing since launching in March.
Former Prisoners Readjust To Society
Tyler Brackfield is one of the participants who was selected for the program. While Brackfield said he is on the right track now as he is working for a company that specializes in electrical automation, he said it wasn’t always been this way.
‘I didn’t think it was real’
More than 100 formerly incarcerated Durhamites receive universal basic income deposits
EXCEL Participant - Torry Cooper
StepUp Durham’s free monthly stipend for former inmates is making a difference in the lives of people like Torry Cooper BY NOORULAIN KHAWAJA DURHAM PUBLISHED 7:16 PM ET MAY. 17, 2022
EXCEL Participant - Tydricka Lewis
Tydricka Lewis is a hard-working mom with a full-time job as a peer support specialist. Spectrum Local News | By PATRICK THOMAS DURHAM | PUBLISHED 6:00 AM ET MAR. 25, 2022