The coronavirus crisis could pave the way to universal basic income
Guy Standing, a research professor in development studies at SOAS, University of London, told CNBC via telephone that there was no prospect of a global economic revival without a universal basic income.
50 Canadian Senators call for a Universal Basic Income
OTTAWA, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020—Today 50 members of the Senate of Canada from across affiliations and regions wrote to the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister commending them for the government’s actions to date and calling for further evolution of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) in order to implement a minimum basic income.
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz this week confirmed what we’ve all suspected...
That the Religious Discrimination Bill is not off the agenda, it’s merely on the back burner until after the COVID-19 crisis is over. Senator Abetz was interviewed on Sky News this week.
Covid-19 is laying bare the fundamental stupidity of our economic system. There is a better way.
All around the world governments are trying to weigh the economic and real world harm of effective suppression/mitigation strategies vs the potential danger of not effectively containing the pandemic. Given current circumstances, and the assumptions they operate under, it’s a legitimately difficult decision. Poverty is a killer too.
But it doesn’t have to be this way…
Universal basic income is the only fair option in COVID-19 crisis
Have we all of a sudden forgotten that the global system in the current pandemic crisis was itself a system in crisis? To respond to these unprecedented levels of social uncertainty, psychological anxiety and material insecurity, we cannot apply usual thinking, half-measures and old solutions.
Article in Independent Australia by Loriana Luccioni, 12 April 2020