Archive: Universal Basic Income

• WCP: The Precariat: Why a Basic Income is Vital

  As work becomes increasingly unstable and insecure, economic inequality balloons. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Guy Standing makes the case for a universal basic income with supplements for disadvantaged groups as the only sustainable solution.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Economic Inequality, Guy Standing, Inequality, John Russo, Precariat, Precarity, Sherry Linkon, Universal Basic Income, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Universal Basic Income: A “Social Vaccine” for Technological Displacement?

  Take it from someone who witnessed the severe impact of deindustrialization on working-class Americans: lofty rhetoric and grand promises cannot disguise the massive economic displacement that will

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Deindustrialization, Economic displacement, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Russo, Robots, Sherry Linkon, Technology, Unemployment, Universal Basic Income, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Youngstown