STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
The idea of giving Americans cash without conditions once seemed radical. The pandemic changed that. Income inequality has pushed the concept of a guaranteed income into the mainstream. In recent months, nearly two dozen American cities have tried this. The largest is Los Angeles, where Eric Garcetti is mayor.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)ERIC GARCETTI: We have budgeted $24 million to provide $1,000 a month to 2,000 households for an entire year, no questions asked, wherever poverty lives in our city.INSKEEP: Lily Jamali of KQED has more on the effort to turn a formerly fringe concept into federal policy.LILY […]
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