At Steady State Manchester and at the Social Change and Community Wellbeing Reserach Group at MMU, we have been thinking about the pros and cons of a Universal Basic Income This is a way of funding the social state that does away with stigmatising, means tested benefits. Instead, a Universal Basis Income is an unconditional, non-withdrawable income paid to every individual as a right of citizenship guaranteed. See for a summary of some of the issues relating to a Universal Basic Income https://steadystatemanchester.net/tag/universal-basic-income-ubi/ .

Would you like to know more about how a Universal basic Income might work? We are sharing our understanding of just how a UBI night work in practice on Thursday September 8th, 13.00-17.00 at Brooks Building, Birley Campus of MMU, room 2.28. Come along and join in the discussion. We ask that you read at least one proposed UBI scheme before you come – see below for some links. Once we have got a good understanding of how such a scheme might work in practice we will plan some further events, exploring the feasibility of introducing UBI in the North West.

Different implementation schemes for UBI in a UK context

1. Richard Murphy (long article)

http://classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/financing-the-social-state

2. Green Party

https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/Policy%20files/Basic%20Income%20Consultation%20Paper.pdf

3. RSA

https://www.thersa.org/action-and-research/rsa-projects/public-services-and-communities-folder/basic-income/

4. Compass

http://www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/UniversalBasicIncomeByCompass-Spreads.pdf

5. Malcolm Torry

https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/working-papers/euromod/em5-16.pdf

We hope to see you there for an interesting discussion

