Jamie Swift

How COVID-19 and CERB proved that basic income is not only possible—it works

Jamie Swift and Elaine Power / April 30, 2021 / 11 min read

As the pandemic unfolded, the momentum behind a Basic Income has grown steadily. Not surprisingly, people were given to wondering aloud: Just what kind of world would emerge post-pandemic? Would the megaphones of market fundamentalism holler about debt and deficit and the need to return to the decades of austerity, drowning out radical alternatives?

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