{"id":105301,"date":"2020-04-13T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/pope-francis-this-may-be-the-time-to-consider-a-universal-basic-wage"},"modified":"2020-04-13T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:25:41","slug":"pope-francis-this-may-be-the-time-to-consider-a-universal-basic-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/pope-francis-this-may-be-the-time-to-consider-a-universal-basic-wage","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u2018This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pope-francis-this-may-be-the-time-to-consider-a-universal-basic-wage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk of a universal basic income (UBI), or regular cash payments with minimal or no requirements for receiving the money, has been brought to the forefront as social distancing and economic concerns have put millions of people out of work.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Amid the COVID-19 pandemic Pope Francis says it might be time for some sort of universal basic income.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may be the time to consider a universal basic wage\u201d to \u201cacknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks\u201d and to \u201cachieve the ideal \u2026 of no worker without rights,\u201d Pope Francis said in a letter to the World Meeting of Popular Movements, an organization representing global grassroots organizations, <a href=\"https:\/\/movimientospopulares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020.04.06-Social-Mov.-Easter-ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">published on Sunday via the Vatican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope acknowledged that for many workers, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns are making it difficult, if not impossible, for people to earn money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk of a universal basic income (UBI), or regular cash payments with minimal or no requirements for receiving the money, has been brought to the forefront as social distancing and economic concerns have put millions of people out of work. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic Pope Francis says it might be time for some sort of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105301","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}