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Charles Dillane
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Why not just give them basic income? Or do you consider this a baby step to it?

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February 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Charles Dillane
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My fiancé desperately wants UBI to be a thing bcs rn he wants to be a patient advocate (and he'd be amazing at it) but those kind of jobs don't pay anywhere near enough for us to live off of so he's stuck in an accounting job he hates :/ UBI would get people into jobs they're actually good at too.
February 3, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Related research findings from the UBI in Alaska:
scottsantens.com Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Dec 17
Researchers looked at the impacts of Alaska's UBI on kids' interactions with Child Protective Services (CPS) and found that a $1,000 boost reduces CPS referrals by age 3 by 10%. Also, fewer children die.

UBI will reduce child abuse + fewer kids will end up in foster care

www.nber.org/papers/w31733
We estimate the effects of cash transfers on a severe measure of child welfare: maltreatment. To do so, we leverage year-to-year household variation from a universal and unconditional cash transfer, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). Using linked individual-level administrative data on PFD payments and child maltreatment referrals, we show that an additional $1,000 to families in the first few months of a child's life reduces the likelihood that a child is referred to Child Protective Services by age three by 2.0 percentage points, or 10 percent, on average. Estimates indicate that additional cash transfers also reduce child mortality.
February 3, 2026 at 9:08 PM