I expect they would persist. The poor, ultimately, would remain poor unless we're talking about a UBI well above anything anyone has proposed for the United Sta

I expect they would persist. The poor, ultimately, would remain poor unless we're talking about a UBI well above anything anyone has proposed for the United States. But UBI could help alleviate the significant stresses of navigating the byzantine U.S. entitlement programs, reduce the stigmatizing effect of poverty by eliminating the application processes for entitlements, and save money on the government side by reducing complexity and bureaucracy.