guaranteed annual income
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Also called guaranteed income. compensation provided by the government to any family or individual whose annual income falls below a specified level. GAI
Etymology
Origin of guaranteed annual income
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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The city’s task force has floated the idea of lump-sum payments of $5 million per eligible residents, as well as a guaranteed annual income of $97,000 and erasing personal debts.
From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2023
And Nixon, urged on by his domestic adviser Pat Moynihan, seriously toyed with giving all Americans a guaranteed annual income.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2017
Hess details the still astonishing story of how Moynihan got Nixon to propose a truly radical innovation, a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2015
The guaranteed annual income experiment in Dauphin, Manitoba in the late 1970s offers the solutions necessary to fix the problem.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2014
Nixon talked tough, but he expanded food stamps, supported a guaranteed annual income and generally gave the impression that he cared.
From Time Magazine Archive
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