Since launching in 2020, Mayors for a Guaranteed Income has grown its ranks from 11 to 125 US mayors. Building off of that momentum, Counties for a Guaranteed Income was launched this past February, led by co-chairs Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who is the first to promise a permanent program, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, who led the creation of Breathe: Los Angeles County’s Guaranteed Income Program, which is currently the largest in the nation. In less than a year, 30 county elected officials have joined the movement.
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I continue to be confused by these reports of “Universal Income” on these pages, with continual reports of parochial “experiments” in Universal BI, which to me is a contradadiction in terms.