Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s podcast The Money aired an episode on universal basic income on July 21, 2016.
The podcast focused on basic income as a potential solution to technological unemployment, featuring interviews with guests Andy Stern (former president of the Service Employees International Union and author of Raising the Floor), DC-based journalist Megan McArdle, and Henning Meyer, a research associate at the London School of Economics’s Public Policy Group and editor-in-chief of Social Europe.
Unlike Stern, McArdle and Meyer oppose universal basic income, and believe that governments should pursue alternatives policies, such as job guarantee programs.
Listen to the full episode here:
Richard Aedy, “A universal basic wage?” ABC: The Money, July 21, 2016.
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