With many governments providing pandemic payments, some have argued that the time is now right to bring in a Universal Basic Income (UBI) for all society. Marxist economist, Michael Roberts, argues that while payments during the pandemic are necessary, UBI will not fix capitalist inequality.
Many people are being laid off in the lockdown, and the Irish government has raised the existing job seekers’ allowance of €203 a week to a pandemic unemployment payment of €350 per week. Something similar is operating in the UK where one in three low paid workers have lost their jobs or have […]
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