Louisiana perpetually falls near the bottom of lists evaluating measures of public health and citizen welfare — in poverty , maternal mortality and hunger among children and adults, among other glum statistics. But one New Orleans economist says a simple solution could go a long way toward remedying the state’s many (many) ills.
Karl Widerquist has been writing about universal basic income (UBI) since the end of his economics Ph.D. studies, in the late 1990s. He’s convinced that some sort of income guarantee — in which the federal government gives a sum of no-strings-attached cash to every citizen — is […]
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