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• ‟ People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages.

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• ‟ People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

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• ‟ The evidence shows if you give people security, they become better people. They develop their talents. They become better citizens.

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• ‟ We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security.

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• ‟ Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.

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• ‟ Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations.

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• ‟ The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they send their children to school and for medical treatment.

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• ‟ Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.

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• ‟ Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.

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