One of the topics in social policy I’ve never gotten around to discussing is the debate over a “universal basic income,” in which the welfare state would be partially or completely replaced with a guaranteed income that would be given to everyone.
The chief reason I haven’t written about it is that tons of proposals, papers, and ballot initiatives appeared last year. Some donors set up pilot projects. The Swiss rejected it. People found the shelves in the libraries where the dusty reports from the 1970’s were stored and eagerly read about large-scale social experiments that tested it. [1] In […]
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