Universal Basic Income — Just Another Welfare Program That Will Fail

Universal Basic Income — Just Another Welfare Program That Will Fail

Kerry Jackson is a senior fellow with the Center for California Reform at the Pacific Research Institute.

Earlier this year, a universal basic income bill was introduced in the California Assembly. Should it become law, every resident 18 and over would receive $1,000 a month from the public fisc. Now U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is talking about including a guaranteed minimum income in the next round of coronavirus aid legislation.

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