Pragmatic visionary and former Pasadena Mayor Rick Cole has prescribed ten Grand Challenges to transform Pasadena’s future. As a Pasadena resident since 1976, I call for an eleventh: a guaranteed income for all the city’s residents who need it to end poverty in Pasadena. As Martin Luther King stated: “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.”
In Pasadena, where in 2023 the average apartment rents for $3029 a month, and an officially poor […]
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