Counterplan solves the case – decentralized basic incomes will spill Up to the federal level – Medicare and Medicaid prove

A national model Other counties have funded guaranteed income programs, but as the second largest county in the country, Cook County presents a large test case that Preckwinkle sees as a national model. “It’s our hope that this program and others around the country will kind of prove the point that these kind of investments in our residents are worthwhile,” she said, noting that despite years-long lags, Medicaid was adopted nationwide and Medicaid expansion is following the same slow but steady pattern. “A lot of federal initiatives are the result of things that have percolated up from the local level,” she said. “If we can show that the folks who were participants in the program made significant progress in terms of stabilizing their lives and providing more opportunities for themselves and their children, I think the federal government ought to be doing this for everybody who’s eligible.”