• Mayor announces launch of guaranteed income pilot program

    Saturday, April 23, 2022
    By Nicole Batey Mayor Brandon M. Scott, local officials and strategic partners, stood outside the War Memorial Building on April 20 to announce the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund (BYFSF), the mayor’s guaranteed income pilot program. Over the last year, a steering committee co-led by Joe Jones Jr., founder, president and CEO of the Center [...]
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  • Baltimore to Pay 200 Young Parents $1,000 a Month as Part of Guaranteed Income Pilot Program

    Wednesday, April 20, 2022
    By Bennett Leckrone Baltimore is set to give 200 young parents a cash payment of $1,000 per month over two years as part of a guaranteed income pilot program, Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) announced Wednesday. The Baltimore Young Families Success Fund program was designed over the past year by a steering committee led by [...]
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  • Baltimore City to pay young families $1,000 a month, in “guaranteed income” pilot program

    Wednesday, April 20, 2022
    By Bryna Zumer BALTIMORE — Baltimore City will pilot a "guaranteed income" program, which will pay 200 young, very low-income parents $1,000 a month for two years. The city will use $4.8 million in COVID-related funding for the project. Mayor Brandon Scott announced the pilot program this morning, joining several other cities nationwide in offering [...]
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  • Baltimore to pilot monthly $1,000 guaranteed income for 200 young parents, applications open May 2

    Wednesday, April 20, 2022
    By Marcus Dieterle Baltimore will pay $1,000 monthly for two years to 200 young parents as part of a guaranteed income pilot program, Mayor Brandon Scott announced on Wednesday. The city’s guaranteed income pilot program, called the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund, “will help combat the economic fallout from COVID-19 and assist young parents hit [...]
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  • Peer navigators at the Penn North Library guide customers in recovery efforts

    Friday, March 18, 2022
    Peer navigators at the Penn North Library guide customers in recovery efforts By Emily Sullivan OSI and Baltimore City are partners in the Healing City Baltimore initiative. In a basement conference room at the Penn North Library, away from shelves of books and rows of computers, Tiffinee Scott teaches a group of people how to [...]
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  • Racist narratives about Baltimore do lasting damage | GUEST COMMENTARY

    Friday, February 25, 2022
    By Danielle Torain Fox News’ top-rated pundit Tucker Carlson yet again aimed his facile racism at Baltimore, recently, calling our city “one of the worst places in the Western Hemisphere” and “a little bit of Haiti in the mid-Atlantic.” As The Baltimore Sun’s editorial pointed out, it was an “especially egregious” outburst, even by the very low [...]
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  • Ateira Griffin Has Become a Local Champion for Single Mothers

    Wednesday, February 09, 2022
    By Alice Shapin In 2016, Griffin founded Building Our Nation’s Daughters to work on effective communication between Black single mothers and their daughters. Ateira Griffin knows all about single mothers. She was raised by her mom and grandmother, both single. “Growing up, I had a very close relationship with them and there was always a [...]
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  • Off the Record with Sloane Brown: Danielle Torain, Open Society Institute Baltimore

    Tuesday, February 01, 2022

    Danielle Torain joins Sloane Brown to talk about her first two years as director of Open Society Institute Baltimore, and how COVID-19, issues of racial equity and new motherhood have affected that role.

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  • Battleground Baltimore: An attack on ‘The Block’

    Friday, January 21, 2022
    BY BRANDON SODERBERG AND JAISAL NOOR In this week’s round-up of local news, Baltimore Starbucks workers are unionizing, advocates push for drug decriminalization, the Mosbys go on the defensive, and more. Last month, Battleground Baltimore called attention to Democrats in the Maryland state house refusing to ensure that paraphernalia used for injecting drugs was decriminalized. State Senate President Bill Ferguson [...]
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  • MD People’s Commission Lists Legislative Priorities for 2022

    Thursday, January 20, 2022
    By Emily Scott, Producer As Gov. Larry Hogan revealed his proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget in Annapolis yesterday, the People's Commission to Decriminalize Maryland announced its legislative priorities for the 2022 legislative session. The commission is made up of representatives of 28 advocacy groups mostly based in Maryland. Christopher Dews, senior policy advocate for the [...]
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