Many have responded to the pandemic by providing direct cash assistance to those most impacted. This has reignited the once-radical idea of guaranteed income, commonly understood as universal basic income (UBI). A s this idea gains traction one key question needs to be asked: how are people going to receive these funds? Americans have been struggling to put food on the table, make rent, pay bills, and teeter on the financial edge as skyrocketing medical and childcare costs compete against their stagnating incomes. And that was before COVID-19.
Since the pandemic, an unprecedented 40 million Americans filed for unemployment, which […]
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