The Case for Artists’ Basic Income

The Case for Artists’ Basic Income

Marinus van Reymerswaele, ‘The Money Changers’, detail, c.1548. Public domain. If the pandemic has been a period of ‘global humbling’, one limited effect – let’s risk an optimistic view – might be political openness to new ideas

Against the odds: some good news. From spring 2022, Ireland will pilot a ‘basic income’ plan for artists , offering weekly, no-strings pay-packets to painters, actors, poets, musicians and anyone else courageous enough for the stop-start, up-down struggle of artistic self-employment. To begin with, a sizeable cohort of 2000 artists will be supported. Criteria for inclusion are not yet clear, though means-testing […]

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