Universal basic income: Even conservative economist says it’s ‘our best hope’

Universal basic income: Even conservative economist says it's 'our best hope'

A San Francisco advocacy group raised $15,000 in a crowd-funding campaign to show the viability of universal basic income. (Indiegogo, My Basic Income) It might seem a pipe dream straight from one of the left-wing darlings of the moment: a guaranteed regular paycheck from the government.

But universal basic income (UBI) has its fans on the right as well, including no less than Charles Murray, the pioneering conservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who in 2016 called it “our only hope to deal with a coming labor market unlike any in human history” and said it “represents our best […]

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