Is There Scope for a Universal Basic Income in New York?

A universal basic income, i think most of your listeners are familiar with as a policy where everyone gets a certain amount of money to met their basic leeds. I've proposed a cash relief programme to alleviate extreme poverty among the half million or so new yorkers who right now are at that level. And we can lift them up out of extreme poverty, and do so in a way that i believe is going to end up saving the city hundreds of millions of dollars. Because of the scale of the new york city economy, i think that there are ways that we can actually have more of the value flow through the hands of folks that were also trying to help recover,. or stay open