Poverty Quote by Rutger Bregman

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

— Jeremy Rifkin

Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.

— Guy Standing

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

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

— Guy Standing

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

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

“While there are reasons to be sceptical about the predicted technological dystopia that has prompted many high-tech plutocrats to come out in support of…

— Guy Standing

The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.

— Guy Standing

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to…

— Thomas Perez

“Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed on societies…

— Guy Standing

“Politicians must find a way – or several ways for different groups – of framing basic income so as to outflank critics from the…

— Guy Standing

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

— Esther Duflo