United Way Bay Area released a report last week showing 49% of the calls received on their 2-1-1 helpline in a 3-month period, were about housing insecurity and a lack of basic needs like groceries. The Bay Area group serves about 600,000 households, 80% of them people of color.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not just a fighter for racially equality in America. He also believed that eradicating poverty would help transform the quality of people’s lives and create equality for all Americans. California
Nearly 55 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the legacy of his life, his work and the battles he fought, continues to influence the activism of some Californians today. Dr. King often campaigned to end poverty in America, something state Economic Mobility Advisor Michael Tubbs knows all about.
Tubbs was elected Mayor of Stockton in 2016 and was the first Mayor in the nation to offer $500 in guaranteed income for two years to its residents. He also founded End Poverty in California last year and in partnership with the state, has been conducting a state-wide listening tour to hear first-hand from people living in poverty.
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