I appreciate André Coelho’s recent response to Francine Mestrum’s article “ The Alternative Facts Of The Basic Income Movement “, especially his clarification of the role of Basic Income News . However, I believe that Coelho’s reply fails to give due attention to what struck me as Mestrum’s main contention: that organizations like BIEN should not use the term ‘basic income’ to refer generally to guaranteed minimum income programs (which are typically means-tested rather than universal).
We must make no mistake here: the terminology is confusing. Although BIEN has adopted one specific definition of ‘basic income’, this definition is not […]
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