{"id":103,"date":"2014-03-25T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubie.org\/ubie\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-07-02T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:37:28","slug":"unconditional-basic-income-will-liberating-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/unconditional-basic-income-will-liberating-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconditional basic income \u2018will be liberating for everyone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/basicincome-europe.org\/ubie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/barb-jacobson-150x1501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/basicincome-europe.org\/ubie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/barb-jacobson-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"barb-jacobson-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>World Finance interviews Barbara Jacobson, UK organisers of the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income, and chair of UBIE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unconditional basic income: the key to alleviating Europe\u2019s alarming unemployment levels, or misdirected socialist macroeconomics? World Finance talks to Barbara Jacobson, one of the organisers of the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income, about the implications of such a system for Europe: what it might mean for unskilled jobs, inflation, and the British economy. Watch the video below or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfinance.com\/videos\/unconditional-basic-income-will-be-liberating-for-everyone-says-barbara-jacobson-video\" target=\"_blank\"> read the transcript on World Finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_Qi2tnbtpEvA\"><div id=\"lyte_Qi2tnbtpEvA\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Qi2tnbtpEvA\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qi2tnbtpEvA\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Qi2tnbtpEvA\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qi2tnbtpEvA\" target=\"_blank\">Watch this video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Finance interviews Barbara Jacobson, UK organisers of the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income, and chair of UBIE. 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