Universal Basic Income is older than you think. Here’s why its time has come at last.

Will the coronavirus turn into a money tree? Give a Buck is Mashable’s deep dive into Universal Basic Income — an idea gaining currency in a time of pandemic and mass unemployment. Now more than ever, the future depends on whether we can pay the bills.

In the darkest hour of the coronavirus pandemic, in the face of an expected 30 percent unemployment rate and a likely new Great Recession, income-supplementing programs are springing up everywhere. And not just in those slow-to-arrive federal stimulus checks.

Here’s Project 100, a nonprofit, giving $1,000 to 100,000 U.S. families starting this week. There’s […]

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