Brazil has created an emergency basic income scheme for informal workers, to help them through the coronavirus pandemic, and advocates of universal basic income believe the crisis could make policymakers around the world seriously consider permanent schemes of their own. Brazilians will receive BRL600 (around £95) per month under the scheme – more if they are single parents – to stop them falling into extreme poverty. “With the coronavirus pandemic, there was a big movement in Brazilian society,” Eduardo Suplicy, councilman in São Paulo and a strong advocate of UBI, told PFF .
“Because of this, many social movements and […]
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