Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Harris County for its guaranteed income program that helps eligible families in 10 targeted ZIP codes.
Paxton made the announcement Tuesday morning calling the program “unlawful.” He said it “redistributes public money in a manner that violates the Texas Constitution.”
County leaders said they're worried the program will be derailed just weeks before checks were going to start going out. Commissioner Rodney Ellis also weighed in, releasing this statement:"At the local level, we refuse to be bystanders as soaring income inequality has led to 750,000 members of our community enduring a relentless cycle of poverty."
More than 82,000 applications were submitted for the program from the 10 targeted ZIP codes, Brandon Maddox with Harris County Public Health said last month. “Under phase one, it randomly selects around 6,000 people. I think we selected a little bit over to make sure that we had 6,000 available in our pool of eligible applicants, Maddox said."But then from there, those additional six, those not additional, but those we call them the lucky 6,000, had about a one in three chance of being selected for the final program. The phase two lottery then looks at those 6,000 and selects the final 1,928 to be to be selected.
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