A report filed this year by the Washington State Department of Health found that American Indians and Alaska Natives in Washington are eight and a half times more likely to die during pregnancy than white people and are twice as likely to die during pregnancy as Black people.
To address these disparities, the Seattle nonprofit Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services recently launched the Nest, a guaranteed basic income program exclusively for Indigenous families.
Cash assistance programs can improve children's well-being throughout their lives by alleviating early childhood poverty and bolstering their physical safety and food security - all issues that disproportionately burden Indigenous communities.
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