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.
