COVID-19 and basic income (original) (raw)

Policy Network, 2020

Abstract

In this short commentary we want to argue that the pandemic is opening up a policy window for the introduction of a basic income. Even more stronger, we want to argue that the current policy window to institute at least a temporary variant of a basic income, aimed at establishing an income floor for those most affected by the pandemic, constitutes a unique moment in the history of basic income. What makes this window so unique is the co-existence of three conditions that have never occurred simultaneously in recent social history.

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