Featuring UBI Lab Network and UBI Lab Women cofounder Tchiyiwe Chihana
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Councils in the north of England, from Liverpool to Sheffield to Hull, have followed Scotland’s lead in backing a universal basic income (UBI) trial, with a network of local 'UBI Labs’ growing across the North.
The radical but simple idea of a government stipend for all citizens will, its advocates say, make citizens more empowered, healthier, and slash poverty and increase financial security.
Is a pilot feasible, or desirable? How do you prevent it being a subsidy to firms to lower pay?
Come along and be part of this important discussion about the future of the North and the UK.
This ThinkIn is in partnership with The People's Powerhouse.
Chair:
Dave Taylor - Editor and Partner at Tortoise
Speakers:
Tchiyiwe Chihana - gender and development specialist, one of the leading organisers of the Migration Matters Festival in Sheffield and an organiser for the UBI Lab Network.
Tracy Fishwick - has spent her career supporting people in unemployment and promoting inclusion in the labour market, particularly in areas of social and economic deprivation. She is on the 2020 New Year’s Honours list for an OBE - services to unemployed people. She is also the co-founder of the People’s Powerhouse movement for change that supports good and inclusive growth in the North with a particular focus on how people are the key to growth.
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