Universally Wrongheaded

Universally Wrongheaded

Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World , by Annie Lowrey (Crown, 272 pp., $26)

“The issue is not that the United States cannot pull its people above the poverty line,” writes Annie Lowrey, “but that it does not want to.” America’s safety net fails people because it is designed to do so, she argues, “woven as it is with deliberate and large holes.” The solution, per the title of her new book, is to Give People Money .

The idea, specifically, is a “universal basic income” (UBI)—a government program that […]

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