contrary to what you think...
just about a month ago, the chronicle of higher education published lending a lasting hand.«an ideologically diverse group of scholars is putting forward sweeping proposals that, they say, would transform the low-wage labour market for the benefit of poor people and society at large. one plan would guarantee all citizens a small basic income; another would revive the new deal model of a government-created job for anyone who wants one; still another would provide huge public subsidies to private employers in order to raise the wages of low-skilled workers.»
the most controversial of the plans, yet perhaps the best, is the universal basic income, whose best-known contemporary proponent is philippe van parijs, a professor of economic and moral philosophy at the catholic university of louvain, in belgium.
after three years of economic despair, now in an election year and hoping for a new government come january 2005, it is appropriate to have a serious look at effective government assistance.
