Can Universal Basic Income Fix America’s Inequality? | Jeffrey Sachs

Can Universal Basic Income Fix America’s Inequality? | Jeffrey Sachs

Big Think

Published on Feb 15, 2017

Can’t the U.S. be a little more like Scandinavia in its ethos? Fixing inequality in America will take more than economic reform, it will also need a cultural shift. From a human rights and decency standard, everybody in a society should be able to meet their basic needs, says economist and Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs – but he questions whether a popular proposal known as Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the way to achieve a better standard of living in the U.S. Sachs is the author of Building the New American […]

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