Kenyan shillings. Photo by: Claudia Daggett / CC BY-NC Early insights from a groundbreaking test of universal basic income, which the nonprofit organization GiveDirectly is conducting in Kenya , might offer answers to some of the key questions about how this policy could work.
Many of the criticisms of UBI — where money is distributed universally in a community, with no strings attached as to how it is spent — revolve around concerns that recipients will waste the money away, or will not use their time or cash productively. A recent story on the GiveDirectly project in the New York […]
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