What could a universal basic income do to poor families in Rochester? ‘Basically be able to live and to survive’

What could a universal basic income do to poor families in Rochester? 'Basically be able to live and to survive'

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Mayor Lovely Warren says she wants to use tax money from legal marijuana sales, after the state legalizes it, to pay a universal basic income to people living in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the city.

The mayor says they were hit the hardest by the illegal drug market, so they ought to be first in line to get money from the legal drug market.

When I asked a father of five in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city what a universal basic income would mean he said hope and survival.Leverett Copeland lives on […]

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