Social Security

The Road to Basic Income: seizing the radical potential of Minimum Income Guarantee and Basic Income for the Arts

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BINS Trustee Jack Scott discusses how Minimum Income Guarantee in Scotland and Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland might bring us ever closer to a full Basic Income. The Basic Income movement hosts a wide array of attitudes towards the transformative policy proposal which continues to gain traction. What might a Basic Income policy … Read more

Insecurity: Standing’s Eight Giants

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In this series Luke explores the Eight Modern Giants introduced by Economist Guy Standing in his recent report Basic Income as Common Dividends. This second article focuses on Insecurity and how the ideologically driven cutting back of social security has led to chronic uncertainty. He then explores the importance of basic security, and how a … Read more