Part Quote by Guy Standing

A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been…

— Charles Murray

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

— Guy Standing

A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as…

— Rutger Bregman

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

— Rutger Bregman

From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as an answer…

— Rutger Bregman

In functioning high-income countries, the government guarantees the provision of essential goods and services: medical care, transit between cities, supplies for public schools, financial…

— Annie Lowrey

In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.

— Narendra Modi

“What Is Meant by ‘Basic’? The term ‘basic’ causes a lot of confusion. At the least, it means an amount that would enable someone…

— Guy Standing

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved…

— Pratibha Patil

Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of…

— Andrew Yang

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just…

— Charles Murray

I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.

— Guy Standing