The Capital Classics Theatre Company continues its popular “Contemporary Classics Conversations” series with a full-length production of Sweat, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by American playwright Lynn Nottage, combined with moderated conversations during the show about the related issues of power and poverty.
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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?