The pandemic strengthens the case for universal basic income

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Just a year ago, the argument for “universal basic income” (UBI) still seemed a fringe theory . It was the pet project of a coterie of libertarian academics and some left-wing activists, and the subject of an economic experiment among a small group of people in Finland . The idea that governments should cut a monthly check to every […]

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