CLICK TO DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE What is the Guaranteed Care Income Pilot? The Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco (GCISF) pilot was a one-year program (June 2024–June 2025) that provided 10 low-income single mothers in San Francisco with $2,000 a … Continue reading
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The San Francisco Standard: $2,000 monthly stipends helped these SF moms leave sex work behind
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Now that the no-strings-attached payments have stopped, some are unsure how they’ll get by. By Jennifer Wadsworth Published Nov. 13, 2025 Shantanae was desperate. Homeless after fleeing a violent ex and selling her body for a controlling pimp on a … Continue reading
Public Release of Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco Pilot Results
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For immediate release November 5, 2025 Español abajo WHAT: Public Release of Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco Pilot Results WHEN: Wednesday, November 12, 12PM CONTACTS: Rachel West 415-640-4250 guaranteedcareincome@gmail.com; Sharon Lungo 562-659-1183 sharon@riseup.net Spanish Interpretation. Pre-interviews possible. Groundbreaking San Francisco Pilot Addresses Poverty, … Continue reading
US PROS letter to California Assembly Safety Committee opposing Assembly Bill 379
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April 25, 2025. We are writing to urgently ask you to oppose AB 379, the Survivor Support and Demand Reduction Act introduced by Assemblymember Maggy Krell. The language of this bill is based on misinformation and is vague and confusing. Most importantly, it … Continue reading
“Stand In” to Protest San Francisco’s High Tech Surveillance Cameras and the Criminalization of Poverty
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On December 15, 2024, US PROStitutes Collective and others held an action to protest the new high tech surveillance cameras in the Mission district. Protestors stood on the corner of Shotwell and 21st beside one tower where the cameras are … Continue reading
“Stand In” to Mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
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In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project Open House
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In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project celebrated its new office space with an Open House at the Crossroads Women’s Center on Friday, June 21, 2024. Rachel West, Sharon Lungo and Jane Welford (pictured above from left to right) welcomed … Continue reading
Action Alert Update: Bills reinstating loitering for prostitution as a crime have stalled in committee
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Due to public pressure, none of the three new California bills to re-criminalize loitering for prostitution, AB 2034, AB 2646 or SB 1219, have made it out of committee and are not now expected to pass, but we remain vigilant … Continue reading
Action Alert: Stop Criminalizing Sex Workers. Oppose bills making loitering for prostitution illegal again.
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Three new California bills, AB 2034, AB 2646 and SB 1219 aim to re-criminalize loitering for the purposes of prostitution. This is a very harmful move as criminalization undermines sex workers’ safety and puts them at greater risk of rape … Continue reading
Submission to the UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
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US PROS urges the UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls to seriously examine the connections between criminalization of prostitution and violence against women and girls. Criminalization has a harmful and damaging impact on the lives of sex workers. We urge … Continue reading