The path from poverty?: Helping the poor to climb up and out

The path from poverty?: Helping the poor to climb up and out

A new vision in South Dakota. (Shutterstock) Ulster County in the Hudson Valley and the Great Plains of South Dakota are 1,400 miles distant, as the crow flies, and culturally about a million miles apart. But they do have one thing in common: About 12% of their people live in poverty.

Here’s another thing they have in common — both are weighing plans to give more aid to poor people. In Ulster that’s taking the form of a small pilot program to give 100 people selected at random a “universal basic income” of $500 a month for an entire year, […]

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