Universal basic income, or unconditional basic income, is described by The Basic Income Lab at Stanford as a “‘disarmingly simple idea’: give everyone cash, no strings attached, unconditionally and individually.” People and institutions with wide audiences often position universal basic income as a simple panacea to wealth inequality and pending Before the coronavirus struck, the American left and the Democratic Party found themselves debating two wildly ambitious policy schemes: the job guarantee and a universal basic income.The pandemic and the ensuing economic collapse have actually reinvigorated these borderline-utopian ideas: Pennsylvania and California are actively pursuing New Deal–style public-works programs, […]
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