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    A utopian idea whose time may finally have arrived

    by Matt Vella Apr 15, 2017 2 minutes
    After decades of discussion and incomplete study, guaranteed income is finally being put to the test globally

    SOMETIMES, ALL IT REALLY TAKES to change the course of history is a bit of dusting. That’s happened recently as economists and policymakers began seriously re-examining the 500-year-old concept of a basic-income guarantee. The most debated version, known as universal basic income (UBI), is simple enough: the government would pay every adult citizen a salary, regardless of wealth, employment income or if they worked at all. Doing so, theory goes,

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