In the long run the objective is to offer to each person in the United States the unconditional right as an individual, to having his/her material needs met to ensure Life, Liberty, and the opportunity to peruse Happiness,and to empower participation in society and politics. Poverty is a burden so heavy, most cannot rise above it to participate in our great experiment called democracy.
As a result of the current economic crisis and inadequate income
maintenance systems (conditional, means-tested, not high enough), we regard
the introduction of the Unconditional Basic Income essential in order to
guarantee fundamental rights, especially a life in dignity, A similar proposition was introduced in the EU here: http://www.basicincome2013.eu