Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis on Tuesday issued the statement below to express his dismay with the Texas Supreme Court ruling that temporarily blocks Harris County from issuing $500 checks to 1,900 low-income families selected to participate in Uplift Harris, a guaranteed income program:
“I am incredibly disappointed in today’s ruling. This frivolous lawsuit was a broadside attack on Harris County families struggling to make ends meet by state extremists and a hyper-partisan Texas Supreme Court. Now 1,900 working families who were expecting to have their lives changed have been robbed of a critical hand-up. We will not be deterred. We will continue to fight for those 1,900 families, and every one of the 750,000 people living under the crushing weight of poverty in Harris County.”