Job guarantees and free money: ‘Utopian’ ideas tested in Europe as the pandemic gives governments a new role

Job guarantees and free money: 'Utopian' ideas tested in Europe as the pandemic gives governments a new role

London (CNN Business)Christine Jardine, a Scottish politician who represents Edinburgh in the UK parliament, was not a fan of universal basic income before the pandemic hit.

"It was regarded in some quarters as a kind of socialist idea," said Jardine, a member of the centrist Liberal Democrats party.

But not long after the government shut schools, shops, restaurants and pubs in March with little warning , she started to reconsider her position."Covid-19 has been [a] game changer," Jardine said. "It has meant that we’ve seen the suggestion of a universal basic income in a completely different light." In her view, the […]

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