I'm not sure about universal income, but I do know that article left a bad taste in my mouth. The contempt she has for WIC and the people who use it is dripping from the descriptors she uses:
Ew.
Quote:No one spoke to me, but they did stare. Mouths agape, the poverty-stricken mothers struggling with infant car seats, paperwork and their toddlers never took their eyes off me, the tall blond girl, walking with purpose on heels from her Mercedes to their grungy den.
Ew.