How could a basic income change people’s lives?
Ian Burbidge Aima Ahmed
Universal Basic Income
Basic Income can help people take control of their own lives.
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a payment made to everybody. It would give people the power of choice - to learn, to care, to start their own business.
UBI is an old idea whose time has come. Our research explores how it would work in practice, and why it's closer than you might think.
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A Universal Basic Income to safeguard our future
Ronnie Cowan MP
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The case for Universal Basic Income after Covid-19
Anthony Painter
Guy Standing speaking at the RSA on the case for UBI
TEDx talk by the RSA's Anthony Painter on UBI and politics.
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