Chicago’s Lightfoot pitches $500-per-month universal basic income for poor

Published September 21, 2021 6:19pm ET



Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to give about 5,000 of the Windy City’s poorest households $500 a month, no strings attached.

The payments would be part of Lightfoot’s proposed $16.7 billion budget plan, which depends heavily on federal relief money to fill in the city’s spending gaps, WGN9 reported.

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