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Basic income for all could lift millions out of poverty – and change how we think about inequality

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imageA basic income may distribute the peanuts a little more fairly. Peanut piles via www.shutterstock.com

The idea of a basic income for every person has been popping up regularly in recent years.

Economists, think tanks, activists and politicians from different stripes have toyed with the idea of governments giving every citizen or resident a minimum...

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