Living Wage, Universal Basic Income, And The Dignity Of Work

Living Wage, Universal Basic Income, And The Dignity Of Work

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Address to the 2019 Friedman Conference
Sydney, Australia, 25 May 2019
Kurt Wallace, Research Fellow, Institute of Public AffairsAlthough the push to introduce a living wage in Australia may have experienced a recent setback, the concept has become a standard part of policy prescriptions on the left, along with the related idea of a universal basic income. This is illustrated in the platforms of the Democratic presidential candidates in the U.S.In Australia we’ve had calls from the ACTU to institute a living wage so that “no full-time Australian worker lives below the poverty line.” And the Shorten led Labor […]

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