Booker backs universal basic income as he runs left of McGrath in U.S. Senate race

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State Rep. Charles Booker, D-Louisville, has made clear he thinks the only way a Democrat can beat U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this November is to take clear, bold, unapologetic stances on policy issues.

Booker did just that on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a newspaper column that supported establishing a basic universal income. Tying his support of the policy to King’s work with the Poor People’s Campaign, Booker called the idea an investment in Kentuckians.“I believe it is time for Kentucky and the country to commit to a universal basic income,” Booker wrote in the Courier-Journal. “We […]

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