UNIVERSAL
BASIC INCOME AND DISABILITY
by
H.
W. Honeycutt
Discusses
the need for a Universal Basic Income (what is also called the
Guaranteed Annual Income) in the United States. Special emphasis on
how the Universal Basic Income would positively effect people with
disabilities.
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BASIC INCOME AND DISABILITY is
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Quotes
from the book:
While
UBI likely would not discourage labor on the whole, turning us into a
nation of slugabeds, it would almost certainly
allow individuals of all abilities to recognize and embrace different
types of non-income generating labor. Labor conditions with UBI would
provide a significant change from our current system, which primarily
reflects the views of market-ideologues who only see value in labor
which generates income.
We
thus need to recognize disability as a much more ingrained feature of
human existence, and account for it accordingly, not with a
continuance of market discipline for people who, through no fault of
their own, cannot generate income. We should instead stabilize the
living situations of all Americans via a UBI.
With
UBI, disabled workers would be in a better position to remain
selective about when they would chose to work, and the income from
any part-time employment would be an addition to, not a reduction of,
their UBI benefits. And because UBI puts more power in the hands of
workers to negotiate not only wages, but
also labor conditions, people with disabilities would experience
greater leverage in shaping their work environments; if they
experience the unwelcoming
