In 2017, the idea of a universal basic income began moving in earnest from theory to practice, with experiments launching in Oakland, and most notably Finland. “In 2017, We Will Find Out If a Basic Income Makes Sense,” declared the MIT Technological Review . The jury’s still out on UBI, but 2018 has already offered up a new, radical vision for reforming the economy that seems less radical the more we study it: Mass student debt cancellation .
The idea first started being taken seriously earlier this year, after a group of progressive economists produced a new paper suggesting that […]
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