There are important lessons to be drawn from the expansion of public income supports, but the urgent need for UBI is not one of them. (Unsplash) Money is survival. Food, shelter, clothing, even a social life — for most people on the planet nearly every facet of life today means paying up. So it was heroic of Bernie Sanders to almost single-handedly keep alive the proposal for $2,000 stimulus checks for every adult while COVID-19 continues to rage. But does a $2,000 pandemic survival cheque represent a template for post-pandemic politics?
Supporters of universal basic income (UBI) think so. For […]
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