David Piachaud, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and an associate of The Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), published a discussion paper on Citizens’ Income (CI) in December of last year.
Piachaud first acknowledges that a CI, or a basic income, is attractive in its simplicity, and he cites article 25 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights of 1948:
“Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family.”Piachaud states, “A Citizen’s Income could ensure that right was achieved.”He then describes four […]
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