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Nancy Folbre (Former FRS) Quoted in Article about "Gender New Deal"

Former Family Research Scholar and Professor Emerita of Economics at UMass Amherst was recently quoted in an article regarding the future of work in the United States and how that future will apply to gender representation in the workplace. 

The author of the article, Sarah Ashwin, discusses how basic income debates may ignore, "the potential to challenge the resiliently gendered division of paid and unpaid labour." 

This article quotes Dr. Folbre's article entitled, "Basic Incomes for Whom?" where Folbre discusses the merits of Universal Based Income (UBI). 

To read the full article written by Sarah Ashwin with Dr. Folbre's quote, click here.

To read the quoted article written by Dr. Nancy Folbre, click here