[p2p-research] UK's universal credit

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

Next step : "prisonfare"... ?

Financing prisons with public money to "welcome" the poor ( with a nifty
profit for carceral private companies ),
while stripping the poor off their voting rights ?

Eventually also with some low / non paid "work" in prison ?



On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> In this sense, it may be a lot more related to neoliberal workfare than to
> the basic income,
>
> Michel
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
> dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Universal Credit" looks very "conditional" and "coercive" to me, when
>> looking at the paragraph pasted below.
>>
>> How do they define "employment" ? How do they define "work" ?
>>
>>  excerpt :
>>
>> *Conditionality & sanctions:* Universal Credit will be supported by a
>> strong system of conditionality, which will be personalised (building upon
>> Professor Paul Gregg’s recommendations to the previous government).
>> Unemployed people who can work will be required to take all reasonable steps
>> to find and move into employment and the government will introduce a
>> ‘claimant commitment’. New financial sanctions will be introduced into the
>> existing benefits system to support these measures and will be carried
>> through when the Universal Credit is introduced.
>>
>>
>> http://cesi.org.uk/NewPolicy/news/DWP_white_paper_universal_credit_published
>>
>> <http://cesi.org.uk/NewPolicy/news/DWP_white_paper_universal_credit_published>
>>  On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Richard Poynder <
>> richard.poynder at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   Is it possible that the universal credit announced by the UK
>>> government could be imagined as a step towards a basic income?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://cesi.org.uk/NewPolicy/news/DWP_white_paper_universal_credit_published
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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