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I don't know that I'd agree that education, at least in the general sense of a 4 year degree, is obviously more effective that cash. We have an enormous number of people with bachelor degrees that are serving food, and PhDs that are slinging building websites(which is challenging but is not a skill much improved by a Ph.D.)

What type of education did you have in mind?

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For long-term unemployed? They usually don't have marketable skills. Bachelors degrees are clearly not the right answer, since those don't usually teach you any.

The usual package in Europe is a combination of remedial math/english/science and apprenticeships in professional trades - things which no plausible "basic income" recipient could afford to get via private tuition, but which can be easily affordable as an organised programme.

Then we're definitely on the same page because I wholeheartedly agree with you.

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