{"id":426147,"date":"2021-12-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basicincometoday.com\/?p=12422"},"modified":"2021-12-10T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:00:00","slug":"some-may-consider-basic-income-a-radical-idea-but-in-2020-we-lived-it-and-it-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/10\/some-may-consider-basic-income-a-radical-idea-but-in-2020-we-lived-it-and-it-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Some may consider basic income a radical idea, but in 2020 we lived it and it worked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By\u00a0Daniel Ziffer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Original article: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-12-09\/basic-income-push-in-australia-after-covid-welfare\/100681912<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Single mother Juanita McLaren never stops thinking about money, because she doesn’t have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s the number one thing that is going on in your head at all times,” she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “If someone invites you to a job interview, your first thought is, ‘How am I going to afford to get in there? Do I have access to [the] internet?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s just relentless. You’re just constantly coordinating your unemployment basically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n “And it just goes on all day. And when you go to bed at night, you feel crap about yourself because you’re not doing as well as you’re supposed to be.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it hasn’t always been this way \u2014 and it might not have to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow a conference called Basic Income after COVID-19 \u2014 Social Security, Work and Wealth will discuss the concept of giving a living wage to everyone who needs it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s an economic idea that has rocketed from being a fringe academic theory<\/a> to being debated in the US presidential primaries and a key policy of what is potentially South Korea’s next government<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n