A homeless person near the Louise metro stop on Avenue Louise. Credit: Lauren Walker Basic income — giving an unconditioned salary to all citizens to keep them out of poverty — has been hailed as a solution for reducing spiralling inequality. However, one Belgian study has found it is not quite that simple.
In Belgium, almost 20% of the population lives in households that are either poor, financially insecure, or in some way materially or socially deprived. In the persistence of such poverty in welfare states, providing a direct cash benefit to people as part of the basic income […]
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