A University of Salford academic has said 'momentum is building' for a universal income.
Just over 200 years ago in the centre of Manchester, thousands of working men and women gathered in what is now St Peter's Square to make radical demands for parliamentary reform.
University of Salford lecturer Dr Dave Beck, who has helped to organise the conference, told the Northern Agenda podcast that the Government's current levelling up agenda is going "absolutely nowhere" and UBI would provide the North with a better path to becoming "financially sustainable". Dr Beck said the amount paid would ideally be set by an independent body, similar to that which sets the national minimum wage. But he pointed to the UBI trial in Wales, where the Labour Government in Cardiff started paying 500 people £1,600 a month in March as an example of the kind of cash figure people could expect.
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