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Universal basic income payments: How experiments sending people money have worked out

By Zach Halaschak
Published June 28, 2023 10:00am ET
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Universal basic income payments: How experiments sending people money have worked out
Interest in universal basic income has grown in recent years, and now many are looking to pilot programs to see whether local-level experiments could be applied to the federal level. The concept of UBI, which is paying a person merely to exist and not in exchange for labor, has been around for decades. But interest […]

Interest in universal basic income has grown in recent years, and now many are looking to pilot programs to see whether local-level experiments could be applied to the federal level.

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