Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti holds his annual State of the City address from the Griffith Observatory on Monday. Mayor Eric Garcetti included a $24-million Basic Income Guaranteed program in his city budget to be released Tuesday. If approved by the Los Angeles City Council, the program would provide $1,000 a month to 2,000 Los Angeles families for a year. …
Mayor Eric Garcetti offered his vision on Monday for helping Los Angeles emerge from the financial devastation of COVID-19, saying city leaders should commit to economic justice by pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into relief programs and ramping up initiatives that keep residents safe, employed and out of poverty. The mayor, speaking at the Griffith Observatory with the downtown …