With the UK’s social safety net full of holes, support has grown for a basic income to underpin a mean and means-tested benefits system. Stewart Lansley With livelihoods shattered, surging unemployment and falls in household incomes, attention across Europe is turning towards the vital question of post-crisis reconstruction. Covid-19 has already breathed new life into a centuries-old idea, that of providing all with a guaranteed, no-questions-asked, basic income (BI) as of right.
Following a campaign by a European network of activists— Unconditional Basic Income Europe —the European Commission agreed in May to register a citizens’ initiative for an EU-wide BI. […]
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