Toni Preckwinkle, a champion of expanding America's guaranteed income schemes, has revealed that her $500 payouts to Chicagoans were inspired by the Black Panther Party and efforts to help 'our people'.Preckwinkle, the Board President of 's Cook County, on Wednesday said the monthly no-strings checks to some 3,000 residents were floated by the 1960s gun-toting Marxist-Leninist black power activists.Preckwinkle is piloting America's biggest experiment with basic income payments for poor Chicagoans, and this week launched the Counties for a Guaranteed Income group to connect similar efforts across , and beyond.
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