Universal basic income: What is it and why will people be given £1,600 for doing nothing?

Universal basic income: What is it and why will people be given £1,600 for doing nothing?

The trail of the universal basic income scheme was announced earlier this week Thirty people could be given £1,600 a month – no strings attached – in England’s first trial of the universal basic income (UBI) scheme.

The trial is being backed by the independent research organisation, Autonomy, and supported by the charity Big Local and Northumbria University.

The participants in the trial will be handed £1,600 a month as part of the two-year scheme to find out what impact money has on their lives.Autonomy’s plan is to see how the concept of UBI could work in England and if it […]

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