{"id":7479,"date":"2021-02-18T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2021-02-18T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:00:10","slug":"press-release-for-a-universal-basic-income-grant-now-ubignow-launch-of-transformative-policy-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/press-release-for-a-universal-basic-income-grant-now-ubignow-launch-of-transformative-policy-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: For a Universal Basic Income Grant Now (#UBIGNOW): Launch of Transformative Policy Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Climate Justice Charter Movement and allies have released a package of documents, prepared by leading heterodox economists and political economists regarding the importance of a universal basic income grant\/guarantee\/dividend for South Africa. This comes out of intensive campaigning in 2020 for a #UBIGNOW, including the handover of our Climate Justice Charter to parliament which calls for universal basic income grant as a crucial policy tool for the deep just transition. The UBIG is not just about technocratic social policy but about a crucial democratic systemic reform that aims for transformative change as a part of a larger strategy towards a more just and egalitarian society. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Press-release_UBIGNow_18Feb2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Climate Justice Charter Movement and allies have released a package of documents, prepared by leading heterodox economists and political economists regarding the importance of a universal basic income grant\/guarantee\/dividend for South Africa. This comes out of intensive campaigning in 2020 for a #UBIGNOW, including the handover of our Climate Justice Charter to parliament&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/press-release-for-a-universal-basic-income-grant-now-ubignow-launch-of-transformative-policy-proposals\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7480,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}