Basic income experts say Trump could be the radical change America needs
Chris Weller
BusinessInsider.com
Nov. 12, 2016
For many Americans, President-elect Donald Trump represented a radical change in how politics was done.
For advocates of universal basic income, a form of income distribution that seeks to end poverty by paying everyone a standard salary just for being alive, it might just be the radical change America needs.
Basic income’s biggest selling point — at least in theory — is that it could directly lift people out of poverty.
Since people would no longer struggle to cover basic expenses like food, clothes, and home repairs, they’d have more money to stay active members of society, whether they worked or not.
Now that Trump is president-elect, advocates wonder what kind of administration Trump will run: Will he kill any momentum basic income proponents helped build over the last couple years, or will he embrace huge, sweeping reform?
“People feel uncertain and anxious about the future,” Jim Pugh, CEO of Share Progress and co-founder of the Universal Income Project, tells Business Insider. He adds that if Trump plays his cards right, he could actually use that uncertainty to his advantage by embracing basic income, saying that people are “hungry for big solutions right now.”
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