The author is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Naturally.
Posted on 08/16/2018 5:27:04 AM PDT by simpson96
Chicago will soon learn whether its bid for Amazon’s second headquarters has won over the e-commerce conglomerate. But while it waits, the city has a chance to take a step that could do more for many low-income families than the location of Amazon's HQ2 here: Chicago could become the second city in the U.S.—and the first major metropolis—to host a “basic income” pilot program.
“HQ1” for basic income is Stockton, Calif., a struggling city 90 minutes east of San Francisco with roughly one-ninth Chicago’s population. Stockton's dynamic 28-year-old mayor has teamed up with private donors to provide 100 Stockton residents with $500 a month—roughly equal to the Census Bureau’s threshold for “deep poverty” for a single individual. The program aims to launch early next year.
Chicago’s bid to become the HQ2 for basic income is led by Ald. Ameya Pawar, 47th, who has introduced a resolution in the City Council calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to create a task force to develop a basic income pilot. Pawar’s resolution envisions a program that would provide $500 per month to 1,000 low-income Chicago families. Thirty-five other council members have signed on. Emanuel has yet to weigh in.
The mayor should move forward with the plan—for three reasons.
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First, a pilot in Chicago could shed light on the potential effects of giving cash to low-income families with no strings attached. Evidence from elsewhere is encouraging.(snip)
Second, the test need not cost the city government a cent.(snip)
Third, a basic income pilot in Chicago would bolster the city’s reputation as an innovation hub for social policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobusiness.com ...
The author is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Naturally.
Great idea! We can get the Gates family,the Zuckerbergs and the Obamas...all breathtakingly wealthy progressives who hate the injustice of capitalism...to personally fund it.
Dear Americans of African Descent:
The Democrats throw you some table scraps so you will stay under the table and lick their hands.
Conservatives want you to take a seat at the banquet table and enjoy the feast.
I used to read Ad Age in the print era. Rance Crain was a silver spooner but a decent writer with a grasp of irony.
But the Crain publications, ostensibly covering business, have long been hotbeds of radical lefties. These ivory tower types don’t seem to grasp that there is no business per se in socialism, merely lots of taking and a little bit of giving ie sustenance existence (assuming the food shows up at all).
‘Nice tie! Is that a clip-on?’
‘Very nice! 100% Rayon!’
“Chicago could become the second city in the U.S.—and the first major metropolis—to host a “basic income” pilot program.”
Yes, test the pilot program to determine if people will accept free money, and if so how much.
Keep detailed records in the pilot program to determine at what point recipients start declining the money and saying, “No, that’s too much, I don’t want anymore free money.”
And track how long it takes for the city to run out of money.
*applause*
Stockton’s dynamic 28-year-old mayor has teamed up with private donors to provide 100 Stockton residents with $500 a month...
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Too bad Chicago and Stockton can’t come up with private donors to pay off their crushing debts created by decades of Democrat corruption.
No way, that thing will be 100% polyester!
Guess who would decide who gets the hand out in Chicago? More Escalades for the ghetto.
I agree. Emanuel should try this so it will final finish Chicago off and Americans can take over and start again under a different name.
Going to stir some animosity...from “I didn’t get mine!” to “He makes $150,000/year, why does he need it? Give it to me!” Someone somewhere WILL feel slighted.
(I think I shot spitballs at that guy in school. Maybe it was his father.)
This basic income scam relies on the stupidity of the American people.
Thank you Jonathan Gruber, government educators, journalism, social media, cultural rot, open borders, and disinterested parents.
The test will turn out positive.
Early reviews of social pilot projects are always positive, either because of unconscious bias in the selection of the subjects, or deliberate misrepresentation of the results the reviewers are investigated in.
Then, the typical social aid project is scaled up manyfold on the basis of the initial “results”, and becomes a perpetual funded sinkhole, never to be seriously questioned again.
Is the city that overcrowded that they need to drive people out of it even faster?
PLEASE DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before they even think about doing it for the whole country.
Then we can watch what happens, and prove how idiotic it is.
Did you ever notice how you can SEE the ‘stupid liberal’ on some people?
Finland and Quebec already tried this and abandoned the effort. So sure, Chicago, go ahead. And then try to shut it down when it fails.
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