How might receiving a guaranteed check from the government every month impact the welfare safety net and the relationship between individuals and the state? Oren Cass of MI explains the pros and cons of adopting a universal basic income in this episode of POLICYbrief.

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Related links:

The Once and Future Worker
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/theonceandfutureworker

Why Universal Basic Income Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/why-universal-basic-income-terrible-idea-8984.html

Differing views:

The Architecture of a Basic Income
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3346467

Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/who-really-stands-to-win-from-universal-basic-income

Universal Basic Income: Real and Ideal:
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/ubi-real-ideal/

Making quasi-sense of recent basic income initiatives
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2019/03/13/making-quasi-sense-of-recent-basic-income-initiatives/