Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare America’s racial inequalities. One glimmer of hope is that, after the brutal death of George Floyd, there is real pressure to address the unequal treatment that people of color have long inherited and endured. Some of the most thoughtful policy ideas are targeted not solely at racial inequality but at income inequality. Because it tracks race, lessening income inequality is a step toward addressing at least one insidious dimension of racial disparity.
Universal Basic Income, popularized by Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign, is one such idea. Federally funded and managed […]
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