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Libertarian conservative political scientist, author, and columnist
Replacing the welfare state with an annual grant is the best way to cope with a radically changing U.S. jobs market—and to revitalize America’s civic culture
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable A PDF capture of the 2016 WSJ article shows this sentence verbatim as the subheadline under "A Guaranteed Income for Every American" (lines 27-30), with "By Charles Murray" immediately below (line 34). A text mirror reproduces the same wording. However, because the sentence appears as the article’s subheadline/standfirst rather than in Murray’s body text, I can confirm the page contains it verbatim, but I can’t conclusively verify that Murray himself authored that exact sentence. ([media4.manhattan-institute.org](https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/as/files/A%20Guaranteed%20Income%20for%20Every%20American.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified. The quote "Replacing the welfare state with an annual grant is the best way to cope with a radically changing U.S. jobs market—and to revitalize America's civic culture" is the subtitle of Charles Murray's June 2016 Wall Street Journal article "A Guaranteed Income for Every American" (source URL matches). Murray is a well-known advocate for replacing the welfare state with a UBI, as detailed in his book "In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State." The vote direction "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly reflects the quote's stance. Could not directly fetch WSJ (paywall), but web search results from multiple sources (econjobrumors, philipgreenspun.com, basicincome.org) confirm the article title, subtitle, author, and content. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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