Around the world, people are responding to changing economic, social and environmental pressures and discussions are often centred around how best to meet the needs of citizens and reduce high levels of inequality. In the face of increases in politically-motivated homelessness, food bank use, poverty and precarious work – not to mention the perceived threat of automation – the Universal Basic Income seems to offer a panacea for the ills of an exploitative capitalist system and inefficient government (a situation which has been exacerbated by the pursuit of liberalisation and deregulation). A further attraction of the UBI is that […]
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