SUMMARY: Although this article doesn’t mention basic income by name, it argues that direct payments are a powerful tool to combat income inequality and crippling unemployment.

Ryan Cooper, “A Simple Way to Ease Our Economic Woes: Give Every American $2,000.Washington Monthly, March 6, 2014. This article original appeared in the Washington Monthly and was reposted by Alternet.

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