Basic income, by contrast ... most of those programs are limited to a couple hundred people for a set period, meaning they cost funders a few million dollars. Sustaining UBI across the country ...

Depending on whom you ask, providing all Americans with a guaranteed universal basic income could erase inequality and spur entrepreneurship or it could be a recipe for economic disaster.

This is why lawmakers, scholars and civil society advocates are turning to basic income as an alternative. Per the international definition, a ‘basic income’ is “a periodic cash payment ...