A Practical, Socialist Alternative to UBI?
Rather than subverting the logic of the welfare state, the plan for UBS upgrades the it to cover new areas
October 2017
The Fix Live – Universal Basic Services
Allocation of scarce services
The challenge of “universal access” to scarce resources, and how it might be addressed.
Forget a basic income—here’s how Universal Basic Services could fund housing and transport for all
A state service provision could help our society cope with a changing job market. And best of all: it could be fiscally neutral
DEBATE: A new report calls on the state to provide basic services like food, transport and housing – should it?
Millions in the UK are in low-paid or insecure jobs
Could universal basic services stop ‘rise of robots’?
Experts at UCL say free services ‘more effective and politically attainable’ than redistributive payments
An NHS for housing and food? It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds
The left has spent years focusing primarily on opposition: resistance to spending cuts, punitive welfare changes and the erosion of employment rights. Now, with Labour tantalisingly close to power, we have, at last, a chance to imagine something better.
There IS such a thing as a free lunch! Labour hails £42billion-a-year plan to hand out free housing, food, bus passes, phones and broadband
Report written by a team of academics proposes ‘Universal Basic Services’
Some £42billion a year would be spent handing out food, housing and phones
Shadow chancellor hails the ‘bold’ plans and says they will inform his policy
UK needs radical expansion of free services, says report
Academics suggest the government provide free housing, food, transport and internet to help deal with the rise of robots taking jobs
