Kenny discusses the US 1970s negative income tax experiments that guaranteed an income to thousands of low-income recipients and cites outcomes of improved test scores and school attendance for the children of recipients, reduced prevalence of low-birth-weight infants, and increased homeownership.
He argues that many studies of cash transfers in both developed and developing countries have led to a variety of impacts and that these studies have shown that impacts are not correlated with any conditions applied. He also argues for the cost-efficacy of administering such unconditional programs. The author is critical of the argument that poverty is a result of moral failings of the poor and believes this is a justification for taking a paternalistic approach to poverty relief.
Charles Kenny "For Fighting Poverty, Cash Is Surprisingly Effective," Bloomberg Business Week . June 3, 2013. The original article can be found here: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-03/for-fighting-poverty-cash-is-surprisingly-effective#r=rss
Krugman, Paul, "Sympathy for the Luddites"
Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman endorsed a "minimum income" in his edition of his regular Op-ed column in the New York Times. The column is mostly about technological unemployment, but Krugman concludes that the solution requires, "a strong social safety net, one that guarantees not just health care but a minimum income, too." The term minimum income is a bit vague and is not spelled out by Krguman, but among economists the term minimum income is usually used to mean some kind of basic income guarantee, usually along the lines of a negative income tax.
Krugman, Paul, "Sympathy for the Luddites," The New York Times, June
13, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-for-the-luddites.html?_r=0
Latimer, Paul, "An alternative to welfare may help Canadians"
" One idea that warrants further investigation is a guaranteed annual income or negative income tax. This would replace our current welfare system and would ensure Canadians had a certain minimum income. --
Paul Latimer, "An alternative to welfare may help Canadians," Kelowna Capital News (British Columbia), May 23, 2013
http://www.kelownacapnews.com/opinion/208557221.html
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