The UK’s inadequate welfare system gives it a perverse incentive to be the first country to experiment with UBI BRITAIN is in a state of terminal decay.
Take a few news items from the last week.
The Chartered Institute of Housing says the freeze in housing benefit by the UK Government may provoke homelessness , because the rate paid to private tenants now fails to cover even the cheapest rents. London is in the worst situation but Scots are in the same boat.The Scottish Burden of Disease Deprivation report reveals that poverty doubles the risk of early death and ill health. […]
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