M ark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales, has revealed that his government will launch a pilot scheme for a universal basic income (UBI). He announced that the new minister for social justice, Jane Hutt, will be asked to work on the pilot in a move hailed as “incredibly significant” by the Future Generations Commissioner. Although the scheme has been trialled before in other countries, this is the first time we’ve seen UBI take this step forward in the UK. So what exactly is the idea, and could it work? The idea behind UBI is that every citizen, regardless […]
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