Here’s why Sheffield is the right city to pilot Universal Basic Income

Here’s why Sheffield is the right city to pilot Universal Basic Income

Sheffield by night. Image: Benedict Hunjan/Wikimedia Commons. Last month, we at campaign group UBI Lab Sheffield wrote to every councillor in Sheffield and asked them to back a pilot of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the city. For those new to the idea, UBI is a radical re-imagining of our broken and discredited welfare system.

Under a UBI, everyone receives a guaranteed income regardless of their employment status or eligibility for benefits. The exact amount isn’t carved in stone, but most proponents of UBI believe that it should be enough to live on.

The very rich would receive it too, but […]

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