The avalanche of job losses has begun. Only a Basic Income can protect us

The avalanche of job losses has begun. Only a Basic Income can protect us

Jonathan Bartley: Here’s how the Chancellor can protect Britain from an economic catastrophe. As lockdown is lifted, so too are the provisions that have protected many millions from economic catastrophe. But in so doing, the government is creating the conditions for a perfect storm which threatens to destroy lives and livelihoods in a way we haven’t seen for decades, possibly generations.

Even the new rescue package for the UK’s arts sector, while welcome, does not do enough for freelancers and the self-employed who face seeing very little of the money promised to institutions. While the government tries to convince […]

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