“The simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income,” Martin Luther King noted in the late 1960s.

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Indian Cabinet likely to discuss a proposal for universal basic income scheme today

In UBI a basic sum of money is provided to individuals regardless of their income, resources or employment status with a purpose to reduce poverty and increase equality among citizens.

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