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“In 2016 we jumped into this debate because we believe that UBI folks were really short-sighted about what cash could do,” Shafeka Hashash, the director of cash initiatives at the Economic Security Project, told me. “We knew that cash wasn’t going to be the total fix to the social safety net, and so we reached back to civil rights champions who still named guaranteed income, but who also knew that these other market fixes needed to be happening too.”