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guaranteed annual income

American  
[gar-uhn-teed an-yoo-uhl in-kuhm] / ˈgær ən tid ˈæn ju əl ˈɪn kʌm /

noun

  1. Also called guaranteed income.  compensation provided by the government to any family or individual whose annual income falls below a specified level. GAI

  2. guaranteed annual wage.


Etymology

Origin of guaranteed annual income

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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Kash Gaines got behind the $5 million one-time payment as well as the proposed $97,000 guaranteed annual income for 250 years, although he suggested the time period should be doubled to 500 years.

From Washington Times Jan. 28, 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

Besides his wage demands, Reuther has raised such sticky issues as a "guaranteed annual income."

From Time Magazine Archive

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