Published: May. 21, 2024 at 10:51 PM EDTCLEVELAND, Ohio - Universal Basic Employment wants to help Cleveland families prosper and escape poverty.
The program will give 100 people in one of Cleveland’s neighborhoods a wage subsidy or guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year for three years.“Dignifying historically low wage work and beyond the direct care industry thinking about jobs like that turnover hospital beds and also jobs that happen in community through local coffee shops and diners and things like that,” Cotten said.She said this program could be beneficial for both employees and businesses.
“In this pilot, we want to be able to demonstrate and show economically businesses that there is a positive return on the investment by investing in your employees,” Howse-Jones said.“It’s giving folks three years of demonstrated work history, that allows them to develop social capital, individual agency, and allow them to chart the next chapter of what they think their life should look like,” Cotten said.