Afraid You’ll Lose Your Job By Asking For Better Conditions? Basic Income May Fix That

What is work? Clare Ozich, Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (and co-editor of the Green Agenda), considers how a universal basic income (UBI) policy could change how we evaluate the meaning of work in our society in her essay ‘The emancipatory potential of a Universal Basic Income’.

Advocates of UBI believe by setting a standard of living through a yearly income for everyone-it would create a floor no one would fall beneath, eliminating poverty. How we implement it successfully is still being tested in countries around the world. (Studies are currently being planned or done […]

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