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Councils draw up plans for universal basic income

Councils draw up plans for universal basic income,” The Scottish Herald, 6 April 2018.

“Dr Louise Haagh, an expert in economic security and co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network, said a citizens’ income would address ‘many of the flaws in current behaviour and means-tested systems’. But she insisted it was not a ‘stand-alone policy or magic solution to inequality or poverty’. She said: ‘It is important to understand that the main benefit of basic income, which is to generate a basic sense of security within society, does not need an experiment to be considered important’.