Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti unveiled a proposal on Monday to spend nearly $1B in the coming year to address the city’s homelessness crisis.

• Included in the plan is a universal basic income (UBI) program where $24M in taxpayer dollars will be used to provide $1K a month to 2k households for a year – “no questions asked.”

🤿 A deeper dive…
At least 11 U.S. cities are piloting UBI programs this year - including Oakland, Richmond, St. Paul, and Pittsburgh - with another 32 mayors saying they may do so in the future as part of a coalition called Mayors for a Guaranteed Income.

• The payments range from $500 to $1K per month, targeting residents based on income, race, gender, and/or parental status. They are funded by private donations or a mix of public and private money.

Elsewhere… Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang - who made UBI a cornerstone of his campaign - is proposing a basic income for poor New York City residents as part of his mayoral campaign.

⏭️ What’s Next?
Mayor Garcetti’s $955M proposal was included Tuesday in his annual budget blueprint, which must be adopted or modified by the City Council before a June 30 deadline.

• Mayors for a Guaranteed Income: Test programs in the U.S. will be supplemented by other experiments in global cities, past and present. The largest such program is in Maricá, Brazil, where tens of thousands of residents below the poverty line are currently receiving monthly payments.

⚖️ Chauvin Guilty on All Charges

Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts - 2nd-degree unintentional muder, 3rd-degree murder, & 2nd-degree manslaughter - in the death of George Floyd last May. The jurors came to a decision after roughly ten hours of deliberation.

• The charges carry maximum sentences of 40, 25, and 10 years, respectively, but Minnesota uses sentencing guidelines, which means that for someone with no prior convictions like Chauvin, the recommendation is only 12.5 years for each murder charge, as well as four years for manslaughter.
• Even though Chauvin is convicted of more than one count, according to Minnesota law, he only serves a sentence for the most severe charge. If the judge follows the Minnesota state guidelines, Chauvin would serve just that 12.5-year sentence. (More on how that works.)

More: Prosecutors in the case are seeking a longer sentence than the 12.5 years, referencing "aggravated factors"  – but it's up to the judge to decide if those factors exist, and if he will go above the state recommended guidelines.

Even More: The sentencing hearing will take place in about eight weeks. Chauvin is expected to appeal. (What that may look like.)

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+In case you missed it: Yesterday’s 360° coverage of the trial’s arguments.

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Meet Makenzie Pendergrass, a 12-year-old basketball player from Henderson, North Carolina.

• “I can do anything everyone else does,” states the inspiring seventh grader, who lives with nerve damage in her right leg due to a tumor operation in infancy. Makenzie uses a wheelchair and/or walker to hustle around practices.

Images: Screenshot, ABC11

She’s always wanted to play in a game, but has been unable to do so because a school rule prohibits wheelchair users from participating.

• "I go to all of the practices to get better, but even if I am good at the sport I still can't play. It’s unfair,” shared Mackenzie in a letter to her coach.

"It tugs on your heartstrings," says Mackenzie’s coach. "Her goal has always been to play in games, but I wanted her goal to be to score in a game. That's what we focused on going into this basketball season."

Mackenzie fulfilled her dream in a school game last month – not only did she get to play, but also made her first in-game-basket.

• The whole gym erupted in cheers.

🎨 Paint The Town… a team of researchers at Purdue University unveiled the whitest paint ever produced - capable of reflecting 98% of sunlight as well as infrared heat - allowing it to cool surfaces below the ambient temperature, even in strong sunlight.

🌎 Set In Stone… startup CarbonCure Technologies and UCLA CarbonBuilt, co-winners of a competition for innovation that reduces carbon emissions, both developed methods of injecting carbon dioxide into concrete to strengthen the material and decrease its carbon footprint.

🩺 Ctrl + P… Swiss biomedical research group Readily3D developed a system that can 3D-print biological pancreas tissue from a sample of human stem cells in just 30 seconds. The miniature, living pancreas models are then used in drug trials that test diabetes medication.

⭐ Wish Upon A Star… physicists studying massive neutron stars - the extremely dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars - announced that the celestial bodies may be less “squishy” than previously theorized.

The first commercial radio station was located in which city?

A) Chicago
B) Boston
C) New York
D) Pittsburgh

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D) Pittsburgh

On November 2, 1920, station KDKA - out of Pittsburgh, PA  - made America’s first commercial radio broadcast.