Basic Income
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All citizens receive a regular, liveable and unconditional sum of money. The recipient is not required to work or look for work, and the payment is given independently of any other income.
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Agree:
Christopher Pissarides Nobel Prize winner in Economics
I am very much in favour, as long as we know how to apply it without taking away incentive to work at the lower end of the market
Jean-Yves Duclos Minister of Families, Children and Social Development in Canada
I think it’s the principles behind the idea [of a guaranteed income] that matter. These principles are greater simplicity for the government, greater transparency on the part of families and greater equity for everyone
Martin Ravallion Economist
A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay.Disagree:
