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Universal Basic Income, a program popularized by presidential candidate Andrew Yang, might be coming to a Connecticut city.
This hour, we talk with members of a task force that are working to create a pilot program in Hartford, providing UBI to a select group of single parents. Universal Basic Income test programs have popped up in California and other parts of the globe - we talk about who benefits and who will pay for it.
Could Universal Basic Income become the core part of government programs in the future? Would it mean ending SNAP, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and other government assistance programs?
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Poetry by young Hartford area writers is currently reaching a wider readership - on a CTtransit Bus.
The “Poetry Bus” will inspire riders for the next few weeks with excerpts of poems written by students who participate in creative writing classes at the Charter Oak Cultural Center’s Youth Arts Institute. The poems form a graphic display on the outside of the bus.
Charter Oak teaching artist Melanie Faranello came up with the idea for this “moving” piece of public art.
“For the poems that we used on the bus, the prompt was from a tribute poem about Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden” said Faranello. “So we studied Frederick Douglass, and the poem by Hayden and they wrote in response to that poem.”