Public health requires temporary universal basic income

Public health requires temporary universal basic income

© Getty Images The social distancing required to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on our globalized and consumption-based, service-oriented economy.

Across the nation, businesses large and small are closing to minimize contact between people. Over the long term, we will need to make significant investments to aid recovery, but in the near term, we need to provide direct relief to all Americans.

Bipartisan support for sending out $1,000 checks is already coalescing in Congress. I propose this idea be expanded to a temporary universal basic income for all until the national […]

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