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The Philadelphia Citizen’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival® presented by Comcast NBCUniversal, returns for its seventh year on November 14 and 15, 2024. We scoured the country for the changemakers and innovators whose transformative ideas could fuel much-needed progress in our city. The mission: to share powerful ways we can work together to create a city that meets today’s particular challenges and opportunities, so that all Philadelphians can thrive. Save the date and secure your spot with early bird passes available now!

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Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2024

Could Universal Basic Income Close Philly’s Wage Gap?

Devin Cotten, the innovator behind a Cleveland jobs guarantee pilot that will pay $50,000 per year, will talk about how it works at our annual event on November 15

Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2024

Could Universal Basic Income Close Philly’s Wage Gap?

Devin Cotten, the innovator behind a Cleveland jobs guarantee pilot that will pay $50,000 per year, will talk about how it works at our annual event on November 15

BY Lauren McCutcheon

Oct. 25, 2024

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Devin Cotten is the founder and CEO of The Universal Basic Employment and Opportunity Initiative, a project giving 100 Black Clevelanders who are working a stable living wage of $50,000 a year. The initiative not only bypasses the common criticism about universal basic income being just a handout. It also offers a lesson to other cities with embattled reparations efforts and task forces of their own.

Could Philly stem and reduce our currently worsening wealth gap between Black and White households by implementing universal basic employment? Has Devin Cotten come upon a kind of reparations we can all get behind?

Find out at this year’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival, November 14 and 15, 2024.

Listen to him talk with the hosts of our How To Really Run A City podcast below, and secure your seats for the Festival here.

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