Abstract

Given the profound changes in the world of work and the increasing restrictions manifested by conditional transfer programs to overcome the intergenerational transmission of poverty, a new analytical approach to take charge of the contradictions and structural limitations of the human capital theory, but above all the recognition of a new human right, is proposed: the Universal Citizen Income (uci ) and a set of fiscal and social policies that make it viable adopting a strategy of progressiveness. It is sustained that the establishment in Mexico of the uci constitutes a lever of social transformation that would not only overcome income poverty definitively and improve income distribution substantially, but the uci also has a powerful component of emancipation for expanding freedoms and the construction of the autonomy and independence of people