{"id":24547,"date":"2019-05-08T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24547"},"modified":"2019-05-08T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:59:41","slug":"should-the-labour-party-support-the-idea-of-a-universal-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24547","title":{"rendered":"Should the Labour Party support the idea of a universal basic income?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;A Labour-backed report has called for the launch of universal basic income trials across the UK.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/universal-basic-income\">Universal basic income<\/a>&nbsp;(UBI), which takes the form of regular cash payments from the government to all adult citizens, has emerged as a popular concept in recent years because it could top up low pay and reduce inequality. A feasibility study commissioned by the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said a pilot scheme would work in the UK.<\/p><p>Although the report does not represent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/labour\">Labour<\/a>&nbsp;policy, its publication is likely to be viewed as moving the party closer towards testing a form of UBI should it be voted into power.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>More information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/may\/07\/labour-backed-report-urges-trials-of-universal-basic-income\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Labour-backed report has called for the launch of universal basic income trials across the UK. Universal basic income&nbsp;(UBI), which takes the form of regular cash payments from the government to all adult citizens, has emerged as a popular concept in recent years because it could top up low pay and reduce inequality. A feasibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24550,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547\/revisions\/24550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}