Privatizing Welfare

Last week, a conservative think tank called the Fraser Institute published a paper advocating the privatization of unemployment insurance. Welfare state privatization is a longstanding goal of the right wing, motivated largely by a desire to destabilize the welfare system. 

This proposal has a number of issues. 

This note was written and designed by Oliver Mackenzie, and was published on March 8, 2021.

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