Chicago’s retiring mayor goes all-in for universal basic income. In 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel pontificated that you should “never let a crisis go to waste.” Suffice it to say, Chicago, otherwise known as Rahmaland, faces a myriad of crises – fiscally and socially. And Emanuel has ostensibly taken his own advice.
The Chicago mayor is hanging it up, announcing in early September that he will not be seeking re-election next year. Emanuel will go down as one of the least popular mayors in Chicago’s history, which isn’t surprising, considering that the city is plagued by debt, […]
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