Toni Preckwinkle, a champion of expanding America’s guaranteed income schemes, has revealed that her $500 payouts to Chicagoans were inspired by the Black Panther Party and efforts to help ‘our people’.
Preckwinkle, the Board President of Chicago ‘s Cook County, on Wednesday said the monthly no-strings checks to some 3,000 residents were floated by the 1960s gun-toting Marxist-Leninist black power activists.
Preckwinkle is piloting America’s biggest experiment with basic income payments for poor Chicagoans, and this week launched the Counties for a Guaranteed Income group to connect similar efforts across California , Oregon and beyond.’This isn’t a new idea,’ Preckwinkle, who […]
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