Monday, the City Council will consider fiscal 2022 budget amendments. Most Council members are mulling ideas that add — not cut — operating expenditures.
Then there is Alderman DuJuan Gay, D-Ward 6, who has 30 budget amendments to offer. While he “missed the deadline” for submission, he’ll try for support on Monday.
One “idea” he got from Stockton, California, for “universal basic income,’ would allocate $500,000 to UBI and “give $500 per month each to 50 needy families for a year, with no strings attached”.Typically, “social policy” is separate legislation and not part of a budget document. Apparently, Gay also doesn’t […]
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