Palm Springs Program Gives Trans, Nonbinary Up to $900 Per Month

​@VideoMattPresents The city of Palm Springs, Calif. recently granted $200,000 to two nonprofit groups looking to design a pilot program to offer a universal basic income (UBI) of up to $900 per month to transgender and nonbinary Palm Springs residents who meet a poverty threshold.

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The two groups will use the $200,000 allocation to put together an application to receive some of the $35 million California has budgeted to offer grants for groups looking to create guaranteed income programs in the state.

Queer Works CEO Jacob Rostovsky said the city would likely need to agree to match any funds provided by California for the state to agree to fund the program.

“Our project’s budget is estimated at about $1.8 million,” he said. “And so when we look at what other [programs] that have been successfully funded have done, their local cities have provided nearly a match to that funding.”

DAP Health CEO David Brinkman told reporters that the transgender community is “one of the most marginalized populations in our city who face some of the highest levels of housing insecurity, joblessness and discrimination.”

"I specifically stated that I did not believe such programs could scale up to adequately respond to the over 37 million Americans living below the poverty line, the over 6 million Californians or the over 400,000 in the County of Riverside living below the poverty [line]," Middleton said in an email, praising Brinkman for his work and expressing her "concern for the financial vulnerability of the transgender community."

"Transgender Americans suffer extremely high rates of under and unemployment. Transgender Americans face enormous challenges living full and authentic lives," the mayor said. "Those challenges have increased substantially in the past few years as transgender children and their families have been targeted by extremist legislators and governors."

Middleton added she believes a UBI program is a "county, state and federal responsibility," not a "municipal" one.

"My vote to affirm that evening was procedural to provide $200,000 to DAP in order to help them in the application for state funding. In advance of the vote I specifically stated my belief that guaranteed income programs were not the long-term way to proceed. I did not commit to any future funding of guaranteed income programs."

Other members of the Palm Springs city council did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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