Spain is moving to permanently establish universal basic income in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

Spain is moving to implement a universal basic income as a measure to help workers battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Nadia Calviño, the country's minister for economic affairs, told Spanish broadcaster La Sexta on Sunday evening that the government is planning to introduce it as part of a barrage of policies to help people get back on their feet.

She said enacting basic income was "mostly aimed at families, but differentiating between their circumstances."

Calviño didn't offer a specific date as to when basic income could be rolled out in the country. But she said the government hoped it would become "a permanent instrument."

"We're going to do it as soon as possible," she said. "So it can be useful, not just for this extraordinary situation, and that it remains forever."(Read more)

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