Opinion: With Universal Basic Income, a ‘brighter Baton Rouge’

Opinion: With Universal Basic Income, a 'brighter Baton Rouge'

Riverfront Plaza Fountain streams downward on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 inn Downtown Baton Rouge. Over one-quarter of Baton Rouge citizens live in poverty — 14.7% more than the national average .

As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr said, “the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.”

This guaranteed income — or Universal Basic Income (UBI), as it’s widely referred to today — would be a direct, unconditional and regular cash payment issued to all members of a constituency by their government. 728×90 image ad This notion has recently […]

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