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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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
Dr. Graeber’s solution was to have the government provide a guaranteed annual income that would allow people the freedom to find their own purpose in life.
From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2020
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
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
Yet the magazine has also discoursed with a minimum of polemic�though sometimes at unnecessary length�on NATO, the guaranteed annual income and the separation of church and state.
From Time Magazine Archive
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