If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to make a compelling case for a universal basic income as one of the options to help families deal with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, she should turn to Detroit to make her case.
The city’s economic biography reads like a treatise on the need for a basic income, an idea long championed by those who feel our government hasn’t gone far enough to care for our nation’s poor.
After all, the city is the largest, poorest city in the nation, with a poverty rate of roughly 36.4% according to the U.S. Census Bureau. […]
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