Chicago City Council To Vote On Universal Basic Income

By Newsy Staff
October 26, 2021

Chicago is preparing to instrumentality up the thought of cosmopolitan basal income, besides known arsenic UBI

The City Council could ballot arsenic soon arsenic Wednesday connected a program that would supply arsenic galore arsenic 5,000 households with $500 a month. 

If it passes, it would beryllium the nation's largest UBI program.   

The thought was championed by erstwhile Democratic statesmanlike hopeful Andrew Yang. Yang promised to make a national UBI programme giving $1,000 a period to each American implicit the property of 18. He believed it would springiness Americans the accidental to wage disconnected debt, commencement a concern oregon decorativeness school. 

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot enactment distant the $31.5 cardinal programme arsenic portion of her projected 2022 budget.  

The one-year aviator programme volition beryllium funded by the astir $2 cardinal the metropolis received arsenic portion of the American rescue program for COVID-19. 

While Chicago's whitethorn beryllium 1 of the largest UBI initiatives, successful presumption of dollars, it's not unsocial successful investigating the organisation of alleged "free money."   

Some 22 cities, towns and communities crossed the state person instituted a UBI program.   

Among them: Denver, Colorado, and Stockton, California. 

Chicago's politician has said her pushing of the programme came astir by her ain puerility memories of hardship portion increasing up successful Ohio. 

A 2019 study by the City of Chicago revealed that astir 18% of the colonisation lives beneath oregon astatine the poorness level.