Every day, the stories mount up of the impending disaster that is Universal Credit: Ian Duncan-Smith’s Frankenstein offspring of tax credits. Simultaneously, persistent low pay, job insecurity, millions of households dipping in and out of poverty and a cycle of insecure work and insecure lives is now a constant. Even without considering potential impacts of automation, robots, and AI, it is clear that the social contract between citizen, state and market is failing. So new ideas are at a premium. The one idea that has captured the imagination of advocates and critics alike is Universal Basic Income. At its […]
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