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Comment by Frances Fox Piven
Professor of political science and sociology at the City University of New York
Universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial system careening out of control
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Verified via web search. The quote is from Frances Fox Piven's chapter in the book "Imagine Living in a Socialist USA", excerpted on Truthout in February 2014. Web search results confirm the attribution, describing how "scholar Frances Fox Piven argues that the guarantee of a universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial system careening out of control." The vote direction ("for" on "Implement a universal basic income") correctly matches the quote's pro-UBI stance. Fixed: (1) Updated source_url from old truth-out.org format to current truthout.org URL. (2) Corrected author name spelling from "Francis" to "Frances" Fox Piven. Note: Could not directly fetch truthout.org or basicincome.org (blocked by proxy), but web search results strongly confirm the attribution and content.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4d ago
replying to Frances Fox Piven