While negotiations remain stalled over the next coronavirus stimulus package, a possible September deal appears likely to include a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks. For universal basic income (UBI) supporters, that raises the question : If stimulus checks every six months are good, wouldn’t stimulus checks every month be even better, especially during the pandemic? That’s the logic behind S. 3784, Senator Kamala Harris’s (D-CA) May 2020 “ Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act ,” which calls for $2,000 per month payments to most US residents through the pandemic and beyond.
Harris’s bill is in effect the most generous monthly […]
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