It sounds radical, but the ‘guaranteed basic income’
almost became law in the United States—and it’s having a revival now,
with some surprising supporters.
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Globe Staff
February 09, 2014
It was supposed
to be better by now—maybe not all the way better, but definitely better
than it is. With the unemployment rate still nearly 7 percent and more
than 46 million Americans living below the poverty line, the recovery
that was supposed to follow the Great Recession has been slow,
frustrating, and increasingly worrisome.
It’s a problem that has bedeviled the country’s leading economists
and its most powerful policy makers. But explain the whole mess to an
8-year-old, and you might hear a solution that will sound laughably
obvious: Why not just give everyone some money? That way, even poor
people could afford to feed their families and pay rent.
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