'Give People Money' is a useful book about a bad idea

I've written before that the idea of a universal basic income is one that needs to die. 
Author Annie Lowrey disagrees, and she explores the concept in a new book.
Her book provides a framework to examine what changes we can make to make our safety net better.Shortly after the 2016 election, I wrote that universal basic income — the blue-sky policy idea of the government providing a subsistence-level cash payment to every American, or at least every American adult — wa