As the Covid-19 crisis looks set to devastate the economy, the arts ecology and disproportionately affect both disabled people and the self-employed, Diverse Critics writer Julie Farrell makes the case for Universal Basic Income as a means to lessen the impact of growing inequality.
A London tower block. Photograph: GCampbellHall [licensed under CC BY 2.0] ‘It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first.’ Wrote George Orwell in his memoir, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). The peculiar lowness. These words powerfully convey the ever-present sinking feeling of poverty. It doesn’t level out. It doesn’t […]
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