Burak Akbulut/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMen at a nearly empty Gran Via Street during the state of emergency by the government against the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid.

• Spain is taking steps to implement a basic income to help citizens weather the economic fallout from the novel coronavirus, which would make it the first nation in Europe to do so.
• “We’re going to do it as soon as possible. So it can be useful, not just for this extraordinary situation, and that it remains forever,” the minister of economic affairs said.
• No specific date was unveiled.
• In the US, Andrew Yang’s Democratic presidential campaign helped thrust the idea of universal basic income into the mainstream.

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Via https://www.businessinsider.com.au/spain-universal-basic-income-coronavirus-yang-ubi-permanent-first-europe-2020-4