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President Barack Obama has spoken favorably about it. So has Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg. So the path seemed smoothed for Ald. Ameya Pawar when he introduced a resolution this summer calling on the City Council to consider a universal basic income plan for Chicagoans.
The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has been around for decades, but in recent years it has spilled out from think tanks and universities into the real world. UBI’s have been piloted in California, Finland and elsewhere, and come in all shapes and sizes. They are linked by the same […]
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