There Are Fairer Ways To Spread Prosperity Than Universal Basic Income
What could be more attractive than a government prepared to spend more public money to subsidise low wages and dwindling supply of precarious jobs?
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IGP Director’s Seminar – UBS – Feb 2018
Background context for 21st century welfare reform and unique aspects of basic services.
Are Universal Public Services the answer to Europe’s widening inequalities?
The most powerful aspects of the argument are probably not the cost calculations for particular services (which are in any case quite speculative) but the implied political potential of supporting and expanding the social wage.
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
UCL IGP Publishes First Papers on UBS
Professor Jonathan Portes and Howard Reed write two papers discussing the challenges facing our society and look at the costs and effects of delivering Transport and Information UBS.
National coaches as a Transport option
Coaches also cut fuel use by 80%, eliminate billions of hours of driving time, use the vehicle a hundred times more efficiently than cars
School holidays leave 3 million children at risk of hunger, report says
The report said those at risk of hunger over the summer include more than 1 million children who receive free school meals during term time, and 2 million more with working parents who are still in poverty.
Inequality rift will tear our society apart
People in more equal societies are more willing to help each other, trust each other, and to take part in community life.
What we need is a national social care service
The impact of inadequate or ill-designed social care services on the overall state of the health service has become the stuff of daily headlines
Universal Basic Services 