Will Sutton: Want $50 a week or $3,000 a year? Guaranteed basic income might be the ticket

Will Sutton: Want $50 a week or $3,000 a year? Guaranteed basic income might be the ticket

NO.ubistudy.081324_466.JPG (copy) For many, universal basic income programs are creative, poverty-prevention concepts with data to prove they work. Others think they are a crazy, wacko, socialist idea that has no place in a capitalist, free-market society.

This fall, a guaranteed income program that focused on New Orleans high school students will expand its $50 weekly automatic payment plan from 20 students to 1,600. Reporter Marie Fazio reported that The Rooted School program has seen promising success with a one-year pilot. The expanded program will include more students and feature a three-year commitment.

Some high school seniors will participate in a program […]

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