Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Policymakers are demonstrating a renewed interest in a proposal for addressing poverty that is at least as old as St. Thomas More's Utopia (1516): a guarantee of a basic income for all adult citizens, or universal basic income, (UBI). The Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas hosts this panel of distinguished Catholic thinkers to discuss a variety of perspectives of UBI: William Cavanaugh, Santo Cruz, Christine Firer Hinze and Msgr. Martin Schlag.