Poor country, rich minority: why young people need a basic income

Poor country, rich minority: why young people need a basic income

Our research concludes that a universal basic income can alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression in young people. Here, co-authors of our Challenging the mental health crisis report, Elliott and Matthew Johnson of Northumbria University, explore the benefits this kind of economic security can deliver.

Many older generations in the UK have experienced an economic sweet spot in the course of their lives in which excess demand for labour, technological development, distribution of state resources accumulated in the post-war period and relative peace resulted in higher salaries, greater opportunity and a rapidly increasing life expectancy. For the first time in […]

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