In April the UK Parliament’s Work and Pensions Committee published a report on the implementation of Universal Credit: ‘We continue to support the policy objectives of UC, particularly improving incentives Read More
Over seventy years ago, Juliet Rhys Williams, a member of the Beveridge committee, [note]Sir William Beveridge, Social Insurance and Allied Services, Cmd 6404, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1942[/note] objected Read More
A Citizen’s Income is an unconditional, nonwithdrawable income paid to every individual as a right of citizenship. But how should it be implemented? And what should we do about the Read More
On the 24th August Larry Elliott, while discussing the Eurozone crisis, wrote this in the Guardian: In the US magazine Foreign Affairs, Blyth and Lonergan write that instead of pursuing policies Read More
Lauren Razavi has written a thorough description and discussion of a Citizen’s Income in the New Statesman: ‘A Citizen’s Income of £71 a week would make Britain fairer’. The article references Citizen’s Read More
There has been some interesting press coverage of a Citizen’s Income during the last couple of weeks. Larry Elliott, in the Guardian, dedicated an entire column to the possibility. More Read More
My apologies to our blog readers. It’s even longer than I thought since I wrote a blog post for the Citizen’s Income Trust’s website. In fact, it’s over a year. Read More
Ashgate, 2013, 1 4724 1697 1, pbk, 701 pp, £75 The question that this book tackles is an important one: How can developed countries afford pensions for an ageing society Read More