As a counterpoint to this article, I suggest this one written by a Marxist back in 2015.

https://jacobin.com/2015/12/erik-olin-wright-real-utopias-an...

Articles like this are so annoying and no surprise coming from a Manhattan Institute guy.

Of course UBI is effective. We have hundreds of studies to look at to determine this, not just two.

The NYT article was shit too. It's one thing to say that $333/mo of UBI to a family of 2 or more didn't appear to have brain development impacts that were measurable within the first few years of life. It's another to say UBI isn't effective.

We know that a guaranteed monthly income floor has all kinds of positive impacts especially on kids, and especially if kids are prevented from living in poverty for their entire childhood.

Read a 30-year study like this article covers.

https://archive.ph/ps8k1

And never forget that a key component of UBI is universality. It's one thing to study the impact on an individual. It's another to test the impact on an entire community.

In the Dauphin pilot where an entire town got it, crime went down 15%, violent crime went down 37%, and hospitalization rates went down 9%. You aren't going to find stuff like that in any pilot that isn't a saturation pilot testing universality.