Raising the Floor : : how a Universal Basic Income can Renew our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
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Introduction: Can we invent a better future? -- My journey -- Are we at a strategic inflection point? -- The elephant in the room: technology's impact on jobs -- The new landscape of work -- The dark side of the gig economy -- Wither the American dream? -- En route to a new American dream -- A twenty-first-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem -- Epilogue: Join the conversation #RaisingTheFloor.
"The former president of the Service Employees International Union draws on extensive interviews with economists, labor leaders, bankers and others on how advances in technology are creating better products at the expense of the middle class, outlining strategies focused on a controversial "universal basic income" that provides for near-future needs."--NoveList.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Public Affairs, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1610396251
9781610396257
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kravitz, Lee,
SUBJECTS
Guaranteed annual income -- United States.
Income.
Occupations.
Economic policy.