A new program gives low-income Maine mothers monthly cash. Will it help lift them out of poverty?

As a single mother working late nights at a food distribution warehouse, Kimanga Yanga has struggled to pay her bills.

So she was excited when she was chosen for a new program providing 20 single mothers like her with $1,000 cash payments each month for a year to boost their financial security.

“God is good,” Yanga remembers thinking when staff from the Quality Housing Coalition’s Project HOME Trust called.