Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Archives

OPINION: Guaranteed Income for Homeless High School Grads

May 30, 2022 7:42 amMay 30, 2022 12:12 pm

Last week, we reported on the movement gathering steam to cancel student loan debt as perhaps an effort by Democrats to recapture the heretofore reliable vote of the under thirty crowd. Recent action in Sacramento indicates yet another effort to...

CA Senate Passes Guaranteed Basic Income Bill for ‘Homeless’ Graduating High Schoolers

May 26, 2022 4:55 pmMay 27, 2022 9:24 am

The California State Senate just passed Senate Bill 1341 by Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley), to establish a guaranteed income program to 15,000 homeless graduating high school seniors. The “California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (CalSOAR)” is now headed to...

Oakland Mayor Announces Basic Income Program, but Not For Poor White Families

March 25, 2021 3:50 pmMarch 25, 2021 5:37 pm

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Tuesday a privately funded universal basic income program, to provide 600 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) families with low-incomes an unconditional $500 per month for at least 18 months. But there is a...

The Left is Eating its Host

June 12, 2020 2:31 pmJune 13, 2020 7:38 am

Antifa. Black Lives Matter. By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). Riots. Protests. Looting. Arson. Theft. Vandalism. Destruction. No-Go Zones. “Defund the Police.” This is the left eating itself, destroying Democrat-run cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles, breaking into...

Gov. Newsom and Democrat Mayors Prioritizing Homelesss Over Productive Californians on Lockdown

March 26, 2020 8:15 amMarch 26, 2020 8:26 am

Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state would provide “emergency aid to local governments” and implement emergency protective measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless living on California streets. “People experiencing homelessness are among the...

Feds Stepping in on California’s Homeless Crisis

January 25, 2020 8:10 amJanuary 26, 2020 4:23 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Friday that he and the federal government have reached a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration on a joint plan to help combat the city’s homelessness crisis by erecting temporary shelters. There has been...

Gov. Newsom to ‘Jump-Start New Homeless Fund’ with Executive Order

January 8, 2020 2:17 pm

‘$1 billion to fight homelessness, including $750 million for this new Fund, and a major new investment to reform Medi-Cal.’ How much spending billions of dollars before California residents will see results? “The State of California is treating homelessness...