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Universal basic income

March 2019

  • Money mules<br>File photo dated 18/03/13 of money being taken out of a cash machine. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday November 27, 2017. The number of young adults' bank accounts being used to transfer the proceeds of crime has risen by 75% in the last year, a study has found. See PA story MONEY Mules. Photo credit should read: Lynne Cameron/PA Wire

    Universal basic income only goes so far – free public services are essential too

    Alfie Stirling
    Our weekly allowance may sound like universal basic income-lite, but it is part of a radical programme to transform lives, says Alfie Stirling
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    Universal basic income 'would cost less than value of benefit cuts since 2010'

    Economists’ report follows plan from New Economics Foundation in backing proposal
  • A cleaner on a wealthy street in north London

    Low-paid work is no longer a route to better pay – it is a trap

    Paul Johnson
    Universal credit was meant to lift people out of poverty, but it’s achieving little, says Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies

February 2019

  • Clients in a social insurance institution office in Helsinki, Finland

    Free money wouldn’t make people lazy – but it could revolutionise work

    Anna Dent
    Finland’s experiment suggests a way out of our fixation with paid work, says policy and research consultant Anna Dent

January 2019

  • Homeless family

    India's main opposition promises universal basic income for poor

    Ruling party dismisses Congress leader’s election pledge as unaffordable

August 2018

  • Computer programmers using laptop at a desk

    The upside
    Universal basic income hasn’t made me rich. But my life is more enriching

    Tuomas Muraja
    Trialling basic income is pushing Finnish journalist Tuomas Muraja to seek better work opportunities
  • Jeremy Hunt with the Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl after their talks in Vienna.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
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    Ontario's new Conservative government to end basic income experiment

    Official says $150m pilot program launched last year was ‘not sustainable’ but offers no data to support claim

June 2018

  • Clients in an office of Finnish social security agency Kela in Helsinki, early 2017

    Benefit or burden? The cities trying out universal basic income

  • A Passion Flower Butterfly extracting nutrients from charcoal after rainforest was cleared and burned for farmland, Amazon Basin, Loreto Region, Maynas Province, Peru.

    Universal basic income and rewilding can meet Anthropocene demands

    Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin

May 2018

  • A young man looks at a board of job vacancies

    Why a jobs guarantee would benefit us all

    Letters: Our editorial supporting a job guarantee scheme draws responses from Frank Field and from Professor Tony Dobbins. Plus, praise for Margaret Thatcher’s enterprise allowance scheme from Hugh Burkhardt

April 2018

  • House for rent

    The unsustainability of free-market economics

    Letters: An obsession with maintaining high land and house prices has created a vicious class system, writes DBC Reed; notions of a universal basic income should be dropped for job guarantees, says Mike Ellwood; plus letters from David Murray and Derrick Joad
  • Helsinki Restaurant Day, street carnival of food<br>Helsinki, Finland - May 21, 2016: Helsinki Restaurant Day 2016. It is a traditional street carnival of food. Participants sign up on the website and get cooking. Buyers near counter with homemade pies

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    Money problems: why Finland has given up on the basic income dream

    As Finland’s government calls time on a bold experiment in giving citizens cash, can others still attempt such utopian schemes?
  • Clients in a Finnish social security office in January 2017

    Finland to end basic income trial after two years

    Government rejects request for funds to expand scheme and plans stricter benefits rules

March 2018

  • Green Party supporters in Brixton, London, call on the government to clean up Britain’s air on 24 February.

    We Greens aren’t uniting with Labour: small parties must stand firm

    Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas
  • William Beveridge in 1943

    Universal basic income, not child benefit, is key to alleviating poverty

February 2018

  • President Richard Nixon in 1969

    How Nixon was dissuaded from introducing a universal basic income

  • us treasury

    It's time for America to embrace guaranteed income

    Chris Hughes
  • Tech firms

    Tax Amazon, Facebook and Apple more for UK universal pay – study

  • Larry Elliott

    Robots will take our jobs. We’d better plan now, before it’s too late

    Larry Elliott
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