MDC Logo Mendip could host a Universal Basic Income trial, in a bold bid to beat poverty and inequality.
Councillors keen to see a pilot introduced believe it would tackle the inevitable impacts on employment prospects and household incomes following fall-out from the Covid pandemic and other factors such as Brexit, future automation and artificial intelligence.
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) offers a non-means-tested fixed sum paid by the state to cover the basic cost of living, which is issued to all residents regardless of whether they work, or are unemployed, or are rich or poor.Members voted in favour of the […]
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