Universal Basic Income: A Five Year Breakdown of its Cost Across the United States
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
16-5-2021
End Date
22-5-2021
Keywords
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME, COST, ECONOMICS
Abstract
In the wake of the economic upheaval caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic, numerous Americans have received stimulus checks and unemployment benefits from the government. These act as a safety net to prevent those who have been financially impacted by the pandemic from entering into poverty. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a policy that similarly has been proposed as a more permanent safety net and a potential solution to help people out of poverty. Currently the US government provides welfare, food stamps and public transportation to help those who are currently impoverished. Universal Basic Income could take the place of these as an expanded form of government aid. It has been proposed at set levels of anywhere from $1000 to $6000 a month for every citizen above the age of 18 without any distinction of where the recipient lives in the United States. This article will discuss and evaluate the cost of Universal Basic Income in the lens of cost of living and inflation throughout the US. A model will be created by using the average cost of living and population as the cost determination in each county and parish in the United States, as well the District of Columbia. Using the cost of living from each county, a cumulative cost of UBI currently will be created and the average cost per capita reported. Another model to project the cost of UBI 5 years into the future will be created by analyzing projected inflation.
Recommended Citation
Negron, Keegan, "Universal Basic Income: A Five Year Breakdown of its Cost Across the United States" (2021). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 3.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2021/COTS/3
Department/Program
Mathematics
Additional Mentoring Department
Actuarial Science
Additional Mentoring Department
https://cwu.studentopportunitycenter.com/universal-basic-income-a-five-year-breakdown-of-its-cost-across-the-united-states/
Universal Basic Income: A Five Year Breakdown of its Cost Across the United States
Ellensburg
In the wake of the economic upheaval caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic, numerous Americans have received stimulus checks and unemployment benefits from the government. These act as a safety net to prevent those who have been financially impacted by the pandemic from entering into poverty. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a policy that similarly has been proposed as a more permanent safety net and a potential solution to help people out of poverty. Currently the US government provides welfare, food stamps and public transportation to help those who are currently impoverished. Universal Basic Income could take the place of these as an expanded form of government aid. It has been proposed at set levels of anywhere from $1000 to $6000 a month for every citizen above the age of 18 without any distinction of where the recipient lives in the United States. This article will discuss and evaluate the cost of Universal Basic Income in the lens of cost of living and inflation throughout the US. A model will be created by using the average cost of living and population as the cost determination in each county and parish in the United States, as well the District of Columbia. Using the cost of living from each county, a cumulative cost of UBI currently will be created and the average cost per capita reported. Another model to project the cost of UBI 5 years into the future will be created by analyzing projected inflation.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2021/COTS/3
Faculty Mentor(s)
Yvonne Chueh