JimBowie1958
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A Universal Basic Income has three characteristics from everything I have read:
1) It is not needs based. It is truly universal and EVERYBODY gets it. It is not welfare.
2) It is for times of great economic travail where it is very difficult bordering on impossible to find a job.
3) It replaces all forms of welfare.
This is not done in this CA experiment paying $500 a month to some poor people in that it is needs based, no one can live on $500 and it does not make them ineligible for other welfare programs.
Thus it is not a UBI at all, but by name only.
Stockton rolls out universal income experiment.
1) It is not needs based. It is truly universal and EVERYBODY gets it. It is not welfare.
2) It is for times of great economic travail where it is very difficult bordering on impossible to find a job.
3) It replaces all forms of welfare.
This is not done in this CA experiment paying $500 a month to some poor people in that it is needs based, no one can live on $500 and it does not make them ineligible for other welfare programs.
Thus it is not a UBI at all, but by name only.
Stockton rolls out universal income experiment.