Basic Income debate in the House of Commons
On October 13th there was a Westminster Hall debate in the UK parliament about Basic Income. You can watch the recording of the debate by following this link. In advance Read More
Poverty and Inequality are features of our society. But are they inevitable and inescapable? And how can a Citizens Income address these twin evils?
On October 13th there was a Westminster Hall debate in the UK parliament about Basic Income. You can watch the recording of the debate by following this link. In advance Read More
The Covid pandemic has pushed unemployment numbers to record levels all over the world. In the UK, nearly two million people have applied for Universal Credit benefits since the government Read More
Guy Standing, Plunder of the Commons, Pelican, 2019, 0141990620, xviii + 402 pp, pbk, £9.99. After years of marginalisation, the question of wealth is finally creeping onto the political agenda. Read More
The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics has published an Inequality and Poverty Policy Toolkit [1] which enables readers to study the different mechanisms Read More
A recent article in Quillette, ‘Universal Basic Income and the threat of tyranny’, by Shai Shapira, [1] asks some interesting questions: When we examine historical trends in politics and economics, Read More
ATD Fourth World has published the results of its Understanding Poverty in all its Forms research project: an international project that is asking people in poverty what for them are Read More
Guy Standing has written a new book, Battling Eight Giants, which will be published by Bloomsbury during March The publisher says about the book: Today in one the richest countries in Read More
On Wednesday 22nd January at 4 p.m. Guy Standing will be speaking about his book Plunder of the Commons at Goldsmiths University of London. Society is based on three types of Read More