{"id":105283,"date":"2020-04-13T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-pope-just-endorsed-universal-basic-income"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:44:49","slug":"the-pope-just-endorsed-universal-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-pope-just-endorsed-universal-basic-income","title":{"rendered":"The Pope Just Endorsed Universal Basic Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-pope-just-endorsed-universal-basic-income2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/movimientospopulares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020.04.06-Social-Mov.-Easter-ENG.pdf\">Easter letter<\/a> to world leaders, Pope Francis opined that \u201cthis may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights,\u201d the Pope argued.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Francis argued that many workers, including \u201cstreet vendors, recyclers, carnies, small farmers, construction workers, dressmakers, the different kinds of caregivers\u201d were being \u201cexcluded from the benefits of globalization,\u201d while \u201cthe lockdowns are becoming unbearable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Easter letter to world leaders, Pope Francis opined that \u201cthis may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out.\u201d \u201cIt would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights,\u201d the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}