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Germany Adopted a Universal Basic Income, and Nobody Noticed

Germany may have bagged itself a universal basic income (UBI) through a legal back door.  We’ll never know if the judges at the German Supreme Court in Karlsruhe were fully aware of the enormous consequences of their verdict last year.

How Primary Care Can Solve Today’s Health Care Challenges

When I arrived to the US in Spring 2019 as a visiting PhD scholar at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, I was immediately struck by the advertising messages all over the streets, convenient stores and public transports that read

The Housing Crisis Is Real… but So Are Possible Solutions

Housing affordability, as a rule of thumb, is measured as the amount of rent or mortgage over income. When your rent or mortgage surpasses 30% of your income, you are considered subject to financial stress (Meen 2018). In the UK, the average gross monthly