On the latest episode of our podcast, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter chat with Devin Cotten, the Founder and CEO of The Universal Basic Employment and Opportunity Initiative in Cleveland, Ohio. Cotten is helping to extend universal basic employment to one hundred Clevelanders through a pilot that guarantees a living wage of $50,000 a year. This initiative bypasses the common criticism about universal basic income being just a financial handout.
"I think this is a more effective tool, politically," Reed said on the podcast, "because you've got somebody getting up and going to work, just like the rest of us. It's hard for people to hate on someone who's doing the very best they can."
Join us for this episode about an idea we should be stealing from Cleveland. For more from Cotten, see him at The Citizen’s 7th annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival presented by Comcast NBC Universal on November 15th. (Secure your seats here.) Remember to subscribe to the podcast to keep up on all the latest episodes. You can even watch the conversation play out on YouTube.
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