CBINS Admin It was noticeable that there was near unanimous support for the idea of a citizen’s income replacing the current plethora of benefits and pensions amongst the 800 folk present at a recent meeting of the Scottish Independence Convention. My guess is that with enough explanation, support for this policy would unite folk across the constitutional … Read more
From time to time, reports from the financial sector highlight the fact that women are less able to shore up savings than men. (This is true, though the framing is often problematic, with the spotlight directed at women themselves. Yes, there is a savings gap, but there is nothing surprising about it.) One of these … Read more
If you had a blank sheet of paper and were asked to design a welfare system nobody, but nobody, would come up with the system that we have now. A universal basic income is an idea which has been considered in various forms for over two hundred years. Luminaries such as Abraham Lincoln and Dr … Read more