A majority of city councilors indicated their support for a proposal that would grant voting rights to immigrants with “legal status,” but election officials said such a change could prove challenging, in terms of tracking those new voters.
Boston might give away "free" money to get votes. They didn't put it that way. Instead, they said, Boston might give cash [communist universal basic income] for those who meet the definition of "just surviving." One councilor said: “We know that poverty is a policy failure,
There are no specifics to a pilot program yet. Supporting councilors would like to see the cash program cover families living below the poverty line, but administration officials warned that they could not yet predict how many people it would cover or how much it would cost.