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The Conservative Case for a Guaranteed Basic Income

: 25 October 2015; Dan David Prize

Swiss backers of a minimum income spread out coins in Bern. Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Swiss backers of a minimum income spread out coins in Bern. Denis Balibouse/Reuters

With ever more rapid technologization pushing wages down and causing redundancies, could a universal basic income be the bipartisan solution to poverty and inequality we've been looking for?

Also see this excellent piece in the Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/universal-basic-income-a-p…/

... as well as this one in Fastcoexist: http://www.fastcoexist.com/…/a-universal-basic-income-is-th…

(One of the Dan David Prize categories for 2016 is combatting poverty. Learn more here: http://www.dandavidprize.org/…/selecte…/selected-fields-2016)