A Guaranteed Income to Reduce Poverty?

A Guaranteed Income to Reduce Poverty?

Credit…Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos To the Editor:

Ezra Klein’s column explains why I tip McDonald’s cashiers. I loved McDonald’s when my mother, my sister and I made after-school visits there in the late 1960s, and I loved it still when an ersatz retirement celebration was held there 40 years later.

Clearly I’m not likely to abandon McDonald’s, but neither can I happily collect my iced tea and French fries knowing what most of their frontline cashiers are paid.One day, organized advocacy and overdue legislation will ensure that they and like workers earn a living wage. Until then, I’ll make up […]

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