State handouts for all? Europe set to pilot universal basic incomes
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According to the BBC, the Swiss referendum has failed, but it looks like the Netherlands and Finland are also set to roll out their UBI pilots next year.
Switzerland is poised to hold a referendum on introducing the concept, and Finnish and Dutch pilots are set for 2017
Source: State handouts for all? Europe set to pilot universal basic incomes | World news | The Guardian
June 2, 2016
A giant poster installed in a Geneva square by a campaigners in favour of a universal basic income. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
To its acolytes, it is the revolutionary policy idea whose arrival is as urgently needed as it is inevitable. In a future in which robots decimate the jobs but not necessarily the wealth of nations, they argue, states should be able to afford to pay all their citizens a basic income unconditional of needs or requirements.
Universal basic income has a rare appeal across the political spectrum. For those on the left, it promises to eliminate poverty and liberate people stuck in…
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