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Is it time for a universal basic income in Australia?

Is it time for a universal basic income in Australia?

Amidst COVID-19, the Australian government used welfare payments to sustain the Australian economy, while workers were displaced from their jobs. However, COVID-19 has forever changed the job market with many industries not regaining pre-pandemic levels of employment.[1] If the government were to provide welfare payments without means-testing, is this

UBI: A Radical Fringe Theory or a Pragmatic Path Forward?

UBI: A Radical Fringe Theory or a Pragmatic Path Forward?

Of all the 2020 US presidential candidates, none have exhibited a rise as remarkable, and as meteoric, as that of entrepreneur Andrew Yang. Yang, a man so far off the political radar that the Washington Post ran an article on him titled “Random Man Runs for President” [1], was able