Earlier this year the legislature passed LD 1324 , a bill that creates an 11-person committee to study the feasibility of implementing basic income security policy in Maine. The committee is tasked with examining and making recommendations on Maine’s ability to provide direct cash payments, and other forms of assistance, to help make Maine families and individuals more economically secure.
Some examples include universal basic income (UBI) programs, tax credits and rebates and targeted direct cash payment programs. This article focuses solely on what the implementation of a UBI would look like in Maine. According to LD 1324, the committee […]
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