The Welsh government is seeking to run a universal basic income (UBI) pilot. The proposal faces a number of serious hurdles: welfare spending is a reserved competence (that is to say, it is controlled by Westminster, not the Senedd) and a successful programme may be beyond the financial capabilities of the devolved Labour administration. However, it’s a good opportunity to ask some useful questions, namely, what would a useful UBI pilot look like?
The first priority is to make sure a good universal basic income scheme is trialled. What does that look like? Any successful UBI scheme has to pass […]
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