Newark, New Jersey is the latest U.S. city that plans to dip its toes into the universal basic income pond. It would give its residents cash whether or not they have a job as a strategy to end poverty. Universal basic income has been tried in other places and abandoned because it doesn’t work or is too costly, so why is this U.S. city trying going to try it here?
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka announced that they would launch a taskforce to see if UBI would be feasible for the city’s 285,000 residents, more than a quarter of which he […]
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