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    Raising the floor : how a universal basic income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream / Andy Stern with Lee Kravitz.

    By: Stern, Andy, 1950- [author.]Contributor(s): Kravitz, Lee [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Public Affairs, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781610396257; 1610396251Subject(s): Guaranteed annual income -- United States | Income | Occupations | Economic policy | Economic policy | Guaranteed annual income | Income | Occupations | United States | Garantiertes Mindesteinkommen | Ungleichheit | Arbeitsplatzsicherung | Gewerkschaft | Libertarianismus | USADDC classification: 330 LOC classification: HC110.I5 | S864 2016Other classification: BUS038000 | BUS022000 | POL024000 | POL023000
    Contents:
    Introduction: Can we invent a better future? -- My journey -- Are we at a strategic inflection point? -- The elephant in the room: technology's impact on jobs -- The new landscape of work -- The dark side of the gig economy -- Wither the American dream? -- En route to a new American dream -- A twenty-first-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem -- Epilogue: Join the conversation #RaisingTheFloor.
    Summary: "The former president of the Service Employees International Union draws on extensive interviews with economists, labor leaders, bankers and others on how advances in technology are creating better products at the expense of the middle class, outlining strategies focused on a controversial "universal basic income" that provides for near-future needs."--NoveList.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.

    Introduction: Can we invent a better future? -- My journey -- Are we at a strategic inflection point? -- The elephant in the room: technology's impact on jobs -- The new landscape of work -- The dark side of the gig economy -- Wither the American dream? -- En route to a new American dream -- A twenty-first-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem -- Epilogue: Join the conversation #RaisingTheFloor.

    "The former president of the Service Employees International Union draws on extensive interviews with economists, labor leaders, bankers and others on how advances in technology are creating better products at the expense of the middle class, outlining strategies focused on a controversial "universal basic income" that provides for near-future needs."--NoveList.

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