Meet the Liveable Income Guarantee: a budget-ready proposal that would prevent unemployment benefits falling off a cliff
- Written by John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
Ben Jeayes/ShutterstockThe economic crises that have punctuated the 21st century, most notably the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis, have led to a growing realisation that alternatives to our present system are possible and perhaps inevitable.
In particular, there has been an erosion of the belief that the economy is able to provide...