More than two years later, the Community Reparations Commission in Asheville, North Carolina, has released a list of recommendations, calling for a guaranteed income program for people with “low-incomes and assets,” as well as a reparations accountability council.

The 25-member commission was established in March 2022 and tasked with making “short-, medium-, and long-term recommendations that will make significant progress toward repairing the damage caused by public and private systemic racism.”

One of the panel’s recommendations is the creation of a guaranteed income program. According to a commission document detailing the proposal, the program would be used “as a way to ensure basic needs are met for individuals with low-incomes and assets” in the form of monthly cash payments with “no strings attached” and “no work requirements.”

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