​Scotland should pilot basic income trials, GCVS meeting is told A universal basic income (UBI) is an idea whose time has come, a major third sector event was told.
Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) and the Royal Society For The Encouragement Of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) held a debate which heard calls for pilot schemes to be set up in Scotland which would show how the concept would work in practice.
UBI is a tax-exempt, unconditional income source given to every citizen by the government, trials of which are underway in Finland, the Netherlands and Canada.Speaking at the […]
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