198. A DECENT LIFE FOR ALL: the case for a new social guarantee
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Hello! How can we ensure everyone has access to the essentials for a decent life? A coalition of campaigners argue we need a new ‘Social Guarantee’ based on three pillars: living wage jobs, universal public services, and fixing our safety net with a living income. We talk through the idea and how to make it happen with Social Guarantee expert Maeve Cohen who tells us about the thinking behind the concept, leader of Camden Council Georgia Gould who is piloting new universal services and the New Economics Foundation’s Sarah Arnold who talks through the idea of a living income.
Plus Mary Portas tells us about the rise of the Kindness Economy and gives her expert opinion on Ed’s sandwich shop proposal.
Ed’s book ‘Go Big’ is out now in hardback, ebook and audiobook: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1119347/go-big/9781847926241.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is Reasons to be cheerful with Ed Milliband and Jeff Lloyd. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello! |
| 0:13.0 | Hello! |
| 0:14.0 | How are you? |
| 0:15.0 | Fine, how are you? |
| 0:16.0 | I'm fine, something really intriguing happened to me this week. |
| 0:19.4 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:20.4 | And I want to involve you. |
| 0:21.4 | I've gone. |
| 0:22.4 | I looked out of my bedroom window and you saw me. |
| 0:26.2 | I mean, you're there most days. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah, just waiting for a friendly wave. |
| 0:31.2 | I looked out my bedroom window and on the roof of the bay window below in the guttering, |
| 0:36.7 | I saw a cassette and I peered at it. |
| 0:40.8 | It's called Arobesk 2 by Erkand Turgen. |
| 0:46.7 | And I wondered if you would be interested in launching an investigative journalism podcast |
| 0:52.6 | to find out how it got there and solve that mystery. |
| 0:55.5 | Did it not fall out of your window then? |
| 0:57.7 | I have never owned that cassette in my life furthermore. |
| 1:00.7 | I can't remember the last time I had a cassette in my hand. |
| 1:03.3 | How can you have seen so closely what it was? |
| 1:05.9 | How far is the guttering from your... |
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