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Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1610396257. Yang, Andrew (3 April 2018). The war on normal people : the truth about America's disappearing jobs and why universal basic income is our future (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-316-41424-1.
Thomas Spence, an eighteenth century English radical, was apparently the first to lay out in full what is now called a universal basic income. [117] Thomas Paine, a philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, advocated a capital grant and an unconditional citizens pension in his 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice. [118]
Beginning in the end of 1960s, there were four universal basic income experiments conducted in the United States, all in the form of NITs.As Alicia H. Munnell, who was examining the experiments in Indiana, Seattle and Denver explains, [1] a moderate reduction in work effort (17% among women, 7% among men) has been found by the American economist Gary Burtless.
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It’s called universal basic income (UBI), and until recently in the non-Alaska United States, it was written off as a something-for-nothing pipe dream that never had a prayer of becoming actual ...
The most often noted outcome of the second wave of basic income support in the United States has been the four basic income experiments (see below) conducted by the U.S. government at the time but arguably expansions of Food Stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit and creation of the Alaska Dividend (see below) were all outcomes of the debate.
3-minute video on universal basic income (2013) In 2013, eight million 5-centime coins (one per inhabitant) were dumped on the Bundesplatz in Bern to support the 2016 Swiss referendum for a basic income (which was rejected 77% – 23%).