Turns out people love getting this stuff. For the next two years, 30 people in the United Kingdom will receive £1,600 ($1,984) a month from the think tank Autonomy to help researchers understand the effects of universal basic income (UBI) policies. Will the program teach us anything other UBI pilots haven’t?
The idea of UBI is to expand, regularize, and streamline social spending by giving every citizen cash payments, thus reducing inequality and increasing opportunity. It pulls together several threads: the realization among aid workers that giving cash to people in poor countries is a powerful tool for development ; […]
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