There's talk about cutting checks to Americans directly in the mainstream now (MSNBC). It's almost UBI-esque (it's at least technically a "conditional cash tran

There's talk about cutting checks to Americans directly in the mainstream now (MSNBC). It's almost UBI-esque (it's at least technically a "conditional cash transfer program"). The reasoning being that right now they're just doing rate cuts, but that only affects investment at the top level, it does nothing to help the americans living paycheck to paycheck.