Basic Income for Greater Manchester: Plans for a feasible, affordable and popular pilot

Alison Hawdale; Louis Strappazzon; Jonny Douglas; Elliott Johnson; Simon Duffy; Daniel Mermelstein; Graham Stark; Howard Reed; Daniel Nettle; Matthew Johnson

Basic Income for Greater Manchester: Plans for a feasible, affordable and popular pilot

Alison Hawdale, Louis Strappazzon, Jonny Douglas, Elliott Johnson, Simon Duffy, Daniel Mermelstein, Graham Stark, Howard Reed, Daniel Nettle, Matthew Johnson

Social Work, Education & Community Wellbeing

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Abstract

• Basic Income is more feasible and popular than alternatives, such as Minimum Income Guarantee and increases in Universal Credit
• A targeted Greater Manchester Basic Income Pilot is affordable, socially feasible and popular
• It can produce valuable evidence to support development of pioneering preventive policies
• It has the support of comparable communities and builds on the experience of similar interventions, such as the Welsh Government Basic Income Pilot for Care Leavers
• There are clear pathways to funding an intervention of sufficient size without requiring revisions to tax codes
• This is an opportunity for progressive politicians to be brave and to demonstrate that big thinking can solve crises of insecurity

Original language	English
Publisher	UBI Lab Network
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9781861355362
Publication status	Published - 10 Feb 2025

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion keywords

Reduced Inequalities

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

Basic Income for Greater Manchester - Plans for a feasible affordable and popular pilotFinal published version, 8.48 MB

https://hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/commonsensepolicygroup/reports/basic-income-for-greater-manchester/

1 Book

Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything
Johnson, M., Pickett, K., Nettle, D., Reed, H., Johnson, E. & Robson, I., 27 May 2025, Bristol: Policy Press. 160 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

Basic Income: changing policy, designing trials, evaluating impact
Johnson, M. (Participant), Johnson, E. (Participant), Stark, G. (Participant), Reed, H. (Participant) & Nettle, D. (Participant)
Impact: Health and welfare

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Basic Income for Greater Manchester: Plans for a feasible, affordable and popular pilot

Abstract

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Research output

Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything

Impacts

Basic Income: changing policy, designing trials, evaluating impact

Cite this