AUDIO: BBC World Service episode “Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come?”

AUDIO: BBC World Service episode “Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come?”

On November 19, 2016, the BBC podcast In the Balance aired an episode called “Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come?”

Special guests included Michael Faye (cofounder of GiveDirectly , the non-profit launching a basic income experiment in Kenya ), Louise Haagh (Reader of Politics at the University of York and Co-Chair of BIEN), Michael Tanner (Senior Fellow of the CATO Institute), and Ian Gough (Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics).

During the approximately 25 minute episode, host Ed Butler questioned the guests on the many common concerns surrounding basic income, from its affordability to its political feasibility […]

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