10 year basic income program coming to Kenya - 6,000 Kenyans will receive money from non-profit

04/19/2016 - 21:03

Dylan Matthews | @dylanmatt

*Who would pay the bill if this was implemented in America... taxpayers?



GiveDirectly, a charity that gives money directly to poor people in Kenya and Uganda, is launching a big new project: a basic income.

A basic income — also called a universal basic income (UBI), guaranteed minimum income, citizens' dividend, demogrant, etc. — is a regular payment to a group of people just for being alive. Normally, basic income proposals call for the payments to be administered by the government, but there's nothing in principle stopping a nonprofit like GiveDirectly from doing it.

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