Will universal basic income improve lives and reduce inequality, or should campaigners continue to focus on how to better provide basic services like healthcare and education instead? For Anna Coote, a principal fellow at the New Economics Foundation think tank, the evidence that basic income is the best way to ensure a minimum quality of life in an increasingly fractious and unequal economy, is shaky.
Instead, Coote argues that the money could be better spent on building higher-quality public services.
“Money spent on cash payments cannot be invested elsewhere,” Coote wrote in an opinion story for The Guardian published Monday. “The […]
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