Natalie Bennett Scotland is now running trials on implementing a universal basic income. And the initiative should be rolled across Britain, Natalie Bennett writes. Scotland’s trial of universal basic income (also known as UBI) is crucial.
When the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) first met in 1986, the idea of a universal basic income was regarded, possibly even by most of the participants, as what one academic described as a “philosophical pipedream”.
But when the network gathered last week in Tampere, Finland’s second-largest city, there were not only more people, but a very different feel. A universal basic income was […]
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