Richard Murphy and Howard Reed, ‘Financing the Social State: Towards a full employment economy‘ (pdf), the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, 2013.
Murphy and Reed recommend the implementation of an unconditional basic income in the U.K., in this policy paper. Murphy has been one of economic advisers for Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Labour Party.
In this paper, Dr Caitlin McLean demonstrates ‘how a multi-dimensional perspective on gender equality strengthens the feminist case for BI proposals’.
The paper is the first of WiSE working paper series. The WiSE (Women in Scotland’s Economy) research centre was founded in 2010 by Professor Ailsa McKay, who had been vocal for feminist perspective on an unconditional basic income till her death in 2014.
Caitlin McLean, ‘Beyond Care: Expanding the Feminist Debate on Universal Basic Income‘(pdf), WiSE Working Paper Series No.1 September 2015, The Women in Scotland’s Economy (WiSE) Research Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University.
Left Unity’s regional branch for Bath and North East Somerset puts a motion for an unconditional basic income for the party’s national conference which will be held in 21-22 November 2015.
The motion says, ‘[w]e believe that a party of the left should have policies to create a fairer distribution of wealth. The principle of CIP [citizen’s income payment] is well established under different names a system that would enable the discontinuation of the current unemployment benefit system. The payment would be made to all citizens higher than current unemployment benefit levels.’
All motions raised for the coming national conference can be read here (pdf).
Left Unity was founded in 2013, following the appeal by Ken Loach, acclaimed film directer, for a new party to oppose austerity and neoliberalism.
Malcolm Torry, honorary director of the Citizen’s Income Trust, argues that current debates on tax credit cut inevitably urges us to look at the idea of an unconditional basic income.
Malcolm Torry, ‘Why we should pay everyone: cutting tax credits brings the idea of a Citizen’s Income closer to the mainstream‘, London School of Economics.
Sophie Weiner asks people on ‘what will people do if they don’t have to work for a living’. In her article, André Daniel Vital da Silva Coelho, one of editors at Basic Income News (this site), replies:
‘People will work… on tasks of their choosing, not on paid jobs with which they only barely identify with, if at all. Now that cannot happen if people don’t have the means to get the basic resources they need to live with dignity. That’s where basic income comes in. ‘
Sophie Weiner, ‘What will people do if they don’t have to work for a living?‘, 24 October 2015, Hopes & Fears.
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