The Women’s Budget Group and the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis at the University of Essex are organising an event on 30 April on Basic Income & UKMOD – Modelling Trade-Offs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred renewed interest in the possibilities of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to address the key problems of income insecurity, poverty and income inequality. UBI is claimed to provide income security and financial autonomy to individuals through a fixed, unconditional and individual regular stipend. By offering everyone a guaranteed income, a BI scheme would work to reduce poverty and income inequality.
Several Basic Income schemes have […]
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