Press Release: NZUSA
TOP’s youth UBI policy a step in the right direction
The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) has welcomed a recent policy announcement by The Opportunities Party (TOP) for a universal grant to young people aged 18-23.NZUSA has long called for a universal student allowance, noting the inefficiencies, unfairness and invasiveness of means-tested allowances in recent decades, and it has encouraged explorations into UBI in the past.‘In this important election year, politicians need to speak to the lived realities of young people, and allow for their issues to be brought up into the political system’, says […]
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