Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Alderman Ameya Pawar before a City Council meeting in 2016. File Photo. Brian Jackson/For the Sun-Times It’s an idea that has captivated Silicon Valley tech titans and some intellectuals on both the far left and the far right.
President Obama gave a nod to the notion in a major speech on Tuesday.
And now a prominent alderman is trying to plant a seed to see if what some are calling a radical concept can grow in Chicago.It’s called a Universal Basic Income. The idea is to give poor people money — with no strings attached— at public […]
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