Lightfoot says universal basic income can’t help end poverty as city unveils anti-poverty plan

Lightfoot says universal basic income can’t help end poverty as city unveils anti-poverty plan

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduces the keynote speaker Dr. Michael McAfee, President and CEO of Policy Link, at the Solutions Toward Ending Poverty Summit at the Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum at UIC. Mayor Lori Lightfoot is committed to ending poverty within a generation but she isn’t convinced universal basic income will do that.

“I am about teaching people how to fish, so they can feed themselves for a lifetime,” Lightfoot said Thursday at the Solution Toward Ending Poverty Summit at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

“I want people to be able to stand on their own forever.”Lightfoot said universal […]

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