A former labor leader is urging unconventional political alliances in support of public policy to buffer workers from the coming automation age.
Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees union, has kept himself busy being a senior fellow at Columbia University and wading into sticky political debates. His just-released book, Raising the Floor , goes deeper into one of these debates, the clash over the idea of a “Universal Basic Income.”
Stern considers a Universal Basic Income, or UBI, the answer to rising inequality and the joblessness he sees coming from accelerating automation. He gets a lot right […]
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