UBI is Difficult, Maybe It’s Time To Stop Trying So Hard
Review of the RSA’s UBOF proposal for a pathway to UBI
Understanding
NEF Podcast: UBI v UBS
Instead of giving people money, why not guarantee all of the public services they need to live a full life?
What would a truly universal Universal Basic Services look like?
Expand the boundaries of what is possible for the political conversation
Prof J Portes presents the case for UBS
Era of flexible work requires new universal services
It also demands more complex, more high-quality public services. A general set of services that everybody benefits from actually becomes more important when people are working in more different ways than they used to.
Universal Basic Services and how it compares to Universal Basic Income
In the past few months, there has been significant interest in parts of the blogosphere with the idea of Universal Basic Services, a vision of state provision of services that not only covers education and healthcare but also transport, information, food and housing.
Europe’s Poverty Time Bomb
8% of the population, struggle to afford basic goods and services, those who live in poverty suffer from complete social exclusion
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Far more compelling than UBI is ‘UBS’, or the idea of ‘universal basic services’
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?
Universal Basic Services 