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Backing for £200m pilot of citizens income

HOPES that a universal basic income could be a rapid response to the Covid crisis have been dashed by a new study that says it will take three years and £200m just to pilot the idea in Scotland .

Funded by the Scottish Government, the study also warns the experiment will be impossible without Westminster and Holyrood cooperating.The SNP, Liberal Democrats and Greens have recently backed a basic income paid to all as a way of dealing with the economic damage caused by the pandemic.Today’s report backs a three-year pilot, which would cost […]

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Fife Council is investigating if a citizens basic income scheme is feasible in Scotland. A STUDY group including Fife Council has developed a citizens’ basic income (CBI) pilot scheme that is "desirable" but will face a number of challenges.

It’s one of four local authorities – joined by Glasgow, Edinburgh and North Ayrshire – who are looking at the feasibility of a regular, unconditional payment for all individuals.

The idea, brought into sharper focus by Covid-19 and the financial hardship it’s wreaking, is that a CBI would replace benefits and be given to every citizen regardless of wealth, employment or personal […]

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Kamala Harris has long been seen as the front-runner of Joe Biden’s possible running mates, but after the police killing of George Floyd put racial issues at the center of Joe Biden’s campaign for the presidency, the stocks of other black contenders with less criminal justice baggage, such as Val Demings and Keisha Lance Bottoms, have risen. Never one to let a crisis go to waste, Harris is out with her own coronavirus cash promise even after she was spotted violating social distancing rules at a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington.

So it should come as no surprise that […]

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It’s two days before Jessica will be unable to pay her rent for the first time in her life, and she is standing at the gate of the private charity “Hermandad del Refugio” in downtown Zaragoza. Here in the capital of the Aragon region, between Barcelona and Madrid, the summers are hot and the winters windy. Around 10 a.m. in late May, the sun is already scorching.

There are 18 men and women ahead of Jessica in line, standing silently, their arms folded across their chests. They are all pulling shopping trolleys, into which they’ll pack milk cartons, noodles and […]

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I represent Alyn and Deeside in the Senedd – for those who aren’t up to speed on devolution, that’s the body that was called the Welsh Assembly until recently. My constituency last year became the only seat in north Wales to elect a Labour MP. It is largely a manufacturing community that has living memory of what unmanaged economic change can do to an area. My town is Connah’s Quay and its moto is ‘success through industry’.

Coronavirus has affected us all, but I am deeply concerned about the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis on communities like mine. I […]

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Residents waiting in line at a food bank in Madrid JAVIER SORIANO/ AFP It’s two days before Jessica will be unable to pay her rent for the first time in her life, and she is standing at the gate of the private charity "Hermandad del Refugio" in downtown Zaragoza. Here in the capital of the Aragon region, between Barcelona and Madrid, the summers are hot and the winters windy. Around 10 a.m. in late May, the sun is already scorching.

There are 18 men and women ahead of Jessica in line, standing silently, their arms folded across their chests. They […]

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Context: In its report on human rights in India, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that the centre was considering implementing the concept of Universal Basic Income in India. How Universal Basic Income works? A basic income is a regular, periodic cash payment delivered unconditionally to all citizens on an individual basis, without requirement of work or willingness to work.

The five broad features of such schemes are: payments at periodic regular intervals (not one-off grants), payments in cash (not food vouchers or service coupons), payments to individuals, universality, […]

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Universal Basic Income is a well-established proposal that has had several worldwide trials, and been investigated in Ireland for almost 40 years. Now is the time for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) says Dominick Donnelly, the Munster spokesperson for Basic Income Ireland. UBI is an automatic payment to every adult legal resident

SINCE the pandemic began, there has been a host of suggestions about the measures we as a society should put in place to support people through the emergency and rebuild our economy in the months and years to come.

One that has increasingly been gaining attention globally […]

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