Denver experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. It reduced homelessness and increased full-time employment, a study found.
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UBI, or universal basic income, is a form of direct cash assistance to help the most vulnerable get back on their feet. A new study in Denver suggests it works.
  • krolden@lemmy.ml
    1713·
    2 years ago

    UBI is socialism? Without any price caps on goods and services it just gives capitalists another excuse to raise prices.

      • macabrett@lemmy.ml
        141·
        2 years ago

        That’s not true. You’re thinking of social programs. Socialism is when workers own the means of production.

        If this was socialism, America would have already done a military coup in Denver.

        • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          in the US you could call anything socialism and people would automatically hate it