John McDonnell has hailed a new report that calls for Britain to pilot the idea of giving every citizen a £100-a-week ‘basic income’.
The radical scheme, if it were ever rolled out fully, could scrap benefits and instead give every person a basic weekly or monthly payment, no matter how high or low their pay.
Today the Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) think tank lists five ways the idea – trialled in Finland and the Netherlands – could be piloted in the UK.One idea in PEF’s report is to give every adult in a selected community £100, with £50 for each child […]
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