>>>We have nothing approaching basic income or housing that anybody could live off reasonably. >State welfare programs, section 8, food stamps, "earned income

>>>We have nothing approaching basic income or housing that anybody could live off reasonably. >State welfare programs, section 8, food stamps, "earned income credit", medicaid, SSI, TANF, SNAP, etc. There's lots of aid in the US. I question this response with the qualifier of "living off reasonably." I'm certainly lucky enough not to need any of that, but from what I understand, it's barely subsistence existence.