Basic income
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Citizen's Income: the long history of an inevitable idea
Dr Malcolm Torry is Director of the Citizen's Income Trust and a prolific author on the subject of Citizen's Income. On Tuesday 11 October the Institute for Policy Research hosted a seminar on the desirability and feasibility of a Citizen’s or...
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Exposing a fragile coalition: The state of the basic income debate
Dr Luke Martinelli is Research Associate on the IPR's universal basic income project. Is it time to move beyond the polarised views that characterise the basic income debate? Universal basic income (UBI) may be an attractive solution to a host of policy...
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Universal income or universal divide
Dr Luke Martinelli, Research Associate Interest in universal basic income has been intensifying lately, with a discernible proliferation of opinion pieces in the mainstream press. While the reasons for the increased awareness are up for debate, it has surely been...
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..and justice for all? Basic Income and the Principles of Gender Equity
Caitlin McLean, of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California-Berkeley, writes on basic income and gender equity Cross-posted from the website of the journal Juncture http://www.ippr.org/juncture International interest in universal basic income[1] proposals has increased...
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Back to the future: the revival of interest in a Universal Basic Income
In recent weeks, the idea of a universal basic or “citizens” income (UBI) has been enjoying a revival of interest and support. Different versions of the proposal that all citizens should be entitled, by virtue of their citizenship, to a...
