FG Trade / Getty Images What do Kenya, Iran and Alaska have in common? Virtually everyone who lives in those places gets a regular cash payment that they don’t have to work for and that isn’t part of a government assistance program. It’s called universal basic income (UBI), and until recently in the non-Alaska United States, it was written off as a something-for-nothing pipe dream that never had a prayer of becoming actual policy . But the COVID-19 crisis changed attitudes toward income inequality, federal assistance and the degree of responsibility a government has to take care of its […]
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