Universal Basic Employment explains its role in building the Human Rights Economy at The Philadelphia Citizen’s 7th Annual Ideas You Should Steal Festival

🔥 One of many burning questions about UBE's job guarantee pilot is whether $50K is enough. On Friday, November 15, 2024, our Founder and CEO, Devin H. Cotten, took to the stage at The Philadelphia Citizen's 7th Annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival, presented by Comcast.

💵 Devin emphasized, "What we're building up is called the "autonomous wage". A wage that bridges you past the use of most social safety net benefits and restores your individual agency. [...] it allows you to have your income and your neighbor's income [...] recognized by the private sector [...] to change the way your neighborhood looks—and make your home a neighborhood of choice."

🌎 Devin, alongside Dr. Amy Castro, Co-Founder of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research and Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania in conversation with Dr. Fareeda Griffith, Ph.D., Managing Director of the Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity (CEO), explored building the Human Rights Economy.

🔗 Watch the interview in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI0enQ6mxFw