San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Monday announced the launch of a new pilot program intended to help the city’s neediest mothers — Black and Pacific Islander women.

The Abundant Birth Project, hailed as the first program of its kind in the country, will provide income to some 150 Black and Pacific Islander women during pregnancy and after they give birth.

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