The plan to pay 200 people in Greater Manchester £38k with 'no strings attached'

Up to 200 people in Greater Manchester would get £1,600 a month with ‘no strings attached’ under plans put to Andy Burnham. The Labour mayor committed to bringing forward a ‘Basic Income’ pilot in his election manifesto last year. A group of academics have now put forward a proposal setting out how the trial would work, urging the Greater Manchester mayor to ‘make good on his word’. Under the proposal by the UBI Lab Network, the pilot would run over two years and target homeless people in the city-region. Read more here…