Review: Why governments should give away money

Review: Why governments should give away money

Reuters (The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist.)

HONG KONG, July 13 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Few ideas these days are endorsed by both French socialists and American conservatives. Governments giving away money is the rare exception.

U.S. senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders – all potential presidential hopefuls in 2020 – recently endorsed the different but related concept of guaranteeing jobs. Now Annie Lowrey, a contributing editor for The Atlantic, has explored the proposal in a smart new book, "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World".One reason the idea […]

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