USBIG Blog: “Social Experiments 101: A Short Primer for UBI Observers”
Why Finland’s experiment hasn’t “proven” anything about UBI.
Michael A. Lewis is a social worker and sociologist by training whose areas of interest are public policy and quantitative methods. He’s also a co-founder of USBIG and has written a number of articles, book chapters, and other pieces on the basic income, including the co-edited work The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee. Lewis is on the faculties of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the Graduate and University Center of the City University of New York.
Why Finland’s experiment hasn’t “proven” anything about UBI.
The children of the wealthy get “something for nothing” – so why not everybody?
By: Michael A. Lewis (Professor of Social Work, Hunter College) Facebook and Economic Security Project (ESP) co-founder, Chris Hughes has a new book out. Called Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn, the book is part memoir, part policy proposal. The memoir chronicles Hughes’ childhood growing up in a North Carolina working class family, his school […]