Can unconditional welfare payments finally provide the solution to working poverty in Australia?
Universal basic income (UBI) has been heralded as the future of welfare and a way to finally bring equality to societies with more than enough money to go around. Anyone who has shared the pleasure of dealing with the monster that is Centrelink will agree that the social welfare structure in Australia is overly bureaucratic and convoluted, imposing significant psychological costs on those who have to engage with the system.
Recent rhetoric dividing “lifters and leaners” in Australia has incorrectly defined the issue of working poverty. Many […]
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