Basic income has moved into the political mainstream in recent years due to experimental schemes elsewhere A PILOT scheme for a Citizen’s Basic Income (CBI) could still be on the cards for Scotland, despite its disappearance amid the Covid-19 health crisis.
The Scottish Government provided £250,000 to help finance a study into the feasibility of launching a pilot which was jointly run by councils in Fife, North Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow, in collaboration with NHS Scotland.
An interim report was published last October and the final report is due this summer, although the date is unclear because of the coronavirus pandemic.The […]
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