Wilson Sherwin is an activist and educator whose research focuses on women, work, and radical possibilities for alternative futures. She recently completed her PhD in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She currently lives in Mexico City with her partner and two lazy cats.

January 23, 2020

Analysis

What Would a UBI Fund?

Lessons from the 1970s experiments in guaranteed income

One of the questions at the heart of contemporary debates over the merits of UBI is ‘what would it fund?’ In other words, what type of activities would it encourage? There are of course the widely debunked quibbles about guaranteed…