The four day week would see employees across the UK work one fewer day a week while earning the same amount of money. It could have a range of benefits.
Author: Jack Perry
A blogger and advocate based in Glasgow, and the Editor of IDEAS FOR TODAY. Jack is a Trustee of Citizen's Basic Income Network Scotland and is involved with several voluntary groups around the country.
What would the impact be of allowing customers to vote on executive pay?
Controlling Executive Remuneration: Securing Fairer Distribution of Income implies a fundamental shift in how we conceive of large companies.
Would a Basic Income scheme be the victim of its own success?
Would the policy’s own success make funding it through income tax impossible?
The many names of Basic Income
For such a simple idea, Basic Income has a complex web of alternative names. Here are some of the other names for Basic Income, including Universal Basic Income and Citizen’s Income, plus a quick guide to what is and what isn’t BI.
Universal Basic Income would be part of a proud British tradition
Far from an aberration, Universal Basic Income would be part of a proud British tradition, and critics should stop pretending otherwise. Like services, universal payments have proved an important part of British political culture.
What would a truly universal Universal Basic Services look like?
Up to now, suggestions for Universal Basic Services have been anything but universal. We take a look at what a genuinely universal Universal Basic Services would look like.
Universal Basic Services and how it compares to Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Services is a good group of policies lumped together under a misleading name – compared to the transformative potential and simplicity of Universal Basic Income it cannot compete in its current form.
In search of radical ideas? Look to Scotland
Scotland has put its constitutional questions behind it for the time being to focus on truly radical ideas that could improve the lives of its people. From Holyrood to the grassroots, new ideas offer exciting possibilities.
Like Basic Income? Meet Basic Tax Control
Universal Basic Income and Basic Tax Control are two sides of the same coin: one empowers people to make the most of their lives, while the other gives them the chance to participate in running their country.
Benoît Hamon: correct on basic income, wrong on taxing robots
Given Hamon’s radical forward-thinking, it’s baffling that two of his flagship policies contradict each other so conspicuously.