The Huffington Post: Minimum Wages vs. Universal Basic Income
My latest HuffPo piece
My latest piece on Huffington Post is available to read and share, titled "Minimum Wages vs. Universal Basic Income"
Excerpt:
Because basic income provides an income floor, there's no longer any reason to keep any of these bureaucracy-filled ways of easing but never ending poverty. Instead, poverty would . . .
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August 11, 2015
Minimum Wages vs. Universal Basic Income
One of these is a tool of the future, the other is a tool of the past
Below is the full audio (with text) of my commentary originally recorded for WNYC's The Takeaway for a discussion about reconsidering the minimum wage, of which only a small portion was aired. It is available here now in its entirety.
Audio:
Text:
I think that wherever possible, we should look to . . .
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July 29, 2015