Lawmakers float a nationwide basic income experiment that would cover the cost of a 2-bedroom apartment

[thesquanderer]

15. It says "people between 18 and 65 years old"; does not say families...

...and relatively few people at 18 are married, further indicating this is targeted to individuals, not families. And in one's 60s, people are not so likely to have kids still living with them, and have a decent likelihood of being single (whether never-married as you mention, or divorced, or widowed). So I don't think this pilot is anti-single at all.

I suspect the pilot cutoff is 65 because there is already a program that helps out most people over 65 (Social Security), which if nothing else, would be a big variable in the kind of control-group analysis they're trying to do. And while it is unlikely we'll see a genuine government program come out of this pilot (at least near term), it is that much more unlikely that they would add a new program that covers people over 65 without somehow having it impact the social security program.