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Chicago officials looking at universal basic income

Cole Lauterbach  |  August 13, 2018

By Cole Lauterbach, includes “… At his speech for the annual Nelson Mandela lecture in Johannesburg last month, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of a UBI as more jobs are automated. … Chicago is not flush with cash. As of 2016, the city had $40 billion in bills, according to Truth in Accounting. 'It’s obviously bizarre that a city that’s already essentially bankrupt to be piloting a program that mails a bunch of money to everybody, Cass said.”

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