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Positive Thinking: Ending Poverty

Ending Poverty

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Could ending poverty be as simple as giving people money with no strings attached?

Sangita Myska meets former US mayor Michael Tubbs, who believes a guaranteed income holds the key to ending poverty.

Sangita Myska goes in search of the innovators with big solutions to some of our most intractable problems. 

Michael Tubbs believes the key to tackling poverty could be as simple as giving people money when they need it, with no strings attached.

He road tested his guaranteed income scheme while he was mayor of Stockton California, and now forty two other US Mayors are planning similar pilots. 

But can the answer to poverty really be that straightforward?

Contributors include: 

Emma, a participant in Covid Realities, a Nuffield Foundation funded project that's tracking how people on low incomes are faring in the pandemic.
Sir Julian Le Grand, Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE)
Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation
Julie McLachlan, Senior Manager in Economic Policy at North Ayrshire Council, and member of the steering group for feasibility of a Scottish Basic Income pilot.

Producer: Ellie Bury

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Big ideas that might solve some of the biggest problems facing Britain today.

Positive Thinking takes a deep dive into some of the biggest problems facing Britain today - and meets the people whose big ideas might solve them.

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