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Fighting Poverty with Money

Friday, March 30, 2007

Councilmember Bill DeBlasio (D-Brooklyn), Chairman of the General Welfare Committee, on the Mayor's initiative to pay poor people to get medical care and do well in school and Santiago Levy, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and the former deputy finance minister of Mexico on a similar plan that was used in his country.


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