Nixon almost created a national minimum income.

Richard Nixon almost pushed a guaranteed minimum income plan through Congress in the early 1970s. But it was sabotaged by an 1830s British study of the poor that turned out to be largely fabricated.

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In 1969 President Richard Nixon was on the verge of implementing a basic income for poor families in America. It promised to be a revolutionary step – had the President not changed his mind at the last minute. This is the incredible and largely forgotten tale of just how close the U.S. came to stamping out poverty altogether.

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