What is the Universal Basic Income?
Video explainer of the 2023 publication "A European Universal Basic Income"
Proposals of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have proliferated during the first decades of the 21st century, especially with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020.
One of the reasons is the assessment of the various allocations and subsidies currently supported by governments to manage increasing inequality and poverty, including: guaranteed income, minimum income allowance, the living wage, etc. all conditional incomes, highly important yet with somewhat limited results.
These conditional benefits, seen in different European countries and around the world, suffer from a long-acknowledged series of problems that are intrinsic to conditionality of the allocation, however generous.
The research on an Universal Basic Income aims to answer the following questions of whether an UBI be financed by the EU? And more specifically, to answer the key question of how it can be financed, through income tax, wealth tax and carbon tax?
This video is an executive summary of some of the conclusion of the 2023 publication “A European Universla Basic Income” published jointly between Fundació Irla and Coppieters foundation.
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This project is financially supported by the European Parliament. The European Parliament is not liable for the content of the publication or the opinions of the authors.
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Artistic direction by Atipus
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