Technology and the loss of manufacturing jobs have many worried about future mass unemployment. It is in this context that basic income, a government cash grant given unconditionally to all, has gained support from a surprising range of advocates, from Silicon Valley to labor. Our contributors explore basic income's merits, not only as a salve for financial precarity, but as a path toward racial justice and equality. Others, more skeptical, see danger in a basic income designed without attention to workers' power and the quality of work. Together they offer a nuanced debate about what it will take to tackle inequality and what kind of future we should aim to create.
Brishen Rogers, Patrick Diamond, Annette Bernhardt, Tommie Shelby, Peter Barnes, Juliana Bidadanure, Dorian Warren, Diane Coyle, Philippe van Parijs, Connie Razza, Roy Bahat, David Rolf, Corrie Watterson, David McDermott Hughes, James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Peter Kellman, David Stein, Ammiel Alcalay, Jen Fitzgerald, and Jill Magi.
