Balance Quote by Guy Standing

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

— Guy Standing

We need a new model of social protection. Let us accept that jobs are not the magic solution - and that in a globalised…

— Guy Standing

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

— Ari Fleischer

Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.

— Guy Standing

“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther King captured…

— Guy Standing

When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.

— Sharan Burrow

Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because…

— Barack Obama

Work requirements offer opportunities to lifting individuals out of poverty, empower them with the dignity of work and self-reliability while also allowing states to…

— Chris Sununu

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It…

— Jefferson Davis

The government's goal is to provide income support for families most affected by socio-economic hardship. The support... will be conditional on vocational training and…

— Giuseppe Conte

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to…

— Ulrich Beck

If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place…

— Manmohan Singh