Susie Garza displays the city-provided debit card through which she receives monthly payments as part of a basic income programme in Stockton, California on August 14, 2019 [File: AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli] Last month, the US state of Iowa enacted a law banning local governments from adopting basic income programmes. This follows similar developments in Arkansas, Idaho, and South Dakota.
In Texas, after lawmakers failed to get their own such law adopted, the state’s attorney general filed a case to prevent Harris County from launching the basic income pilot that its officials had authorised. Declaring the pilot “unconstitutional”, the attorney general […]
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