'The federal government tested negative income tax programs between 1968 and 1980 in areas including Seattle, Denver, New Jersey, and Gary, Indiana. The results showed the cash grants were beneficial overall. . .' | SkyPattersonFC & city_bureau
Chicago just launched one of the largest guaranteed-income programs in the country. But how long have Americans been pushing for government-backed income as a solution to entrenched poverty and inequality?
The idea of guaranteed income surfaced again during the rise of the civil rights movement and the Black Power era that emerged in the 1960s. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw guaranteed income as a path to national justice and equality. In 1966, the Black Panther Party, one of the most active Black political organizations of the era, stated that in an unjust economic system, the federal government owes guaranteed income or guaranteed jobs to its citizens.
Alaska established the nation’s only large-scale permanent universal basic income for nearly all residents, regardless of age, in 1976. Today, Alaskans typically receive about $1,000 to $2,000 annually as a dividend of oil revenues through the Alaska Permanent Fund. Since 1997, the Eastern Band of Cherokees’ casino dividend program has provided around $4,000 per person per year in North Carolina from casino profits.
As of this summer, at least 30 cities have launched guaranteed-income pilots, including Chicago. Separately, Cook County joined the list of counties with programs. The county’s application will launch in September, and the first payment will go out in December.The modern-day push for guaranteed income in Chicago can be traced back to former alderperson Ameya Pawar, who in June 2018 introduced a resolution to create a task force to study how Chicago could implement a universal basic income pilot.
But in early 2020 at the mayor’s Solutions Toward Ending Poverty Summit, Lightfoot appeared to reverse her position, raising concerns about whether universal basic income was sustainable.
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