Universal basic income-like policies have shown to be an unlikely bipartisan solution to curb poverty. How do we help Americans reach and stay in the middle class? Democrats argue in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Republicans have long argued for tax cuts on the wealthy, which would eventually trickle down (the jury is back; this doesn’t work). In the last few years, there appears to be a new bipartisan solution to help Americans reach and stay in the middle class: universal basic income (UBI).
UBI means different things to different people, but — generally speaking […]
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