On Sunday the PS, party of reigning French president François Hollande, met to choose its nominee for this spring’s election. With Valls as the prospective candidate, the Socialists were fixing to run a dismal fourth in the overall presidential race, maybe fifth. So in Sunday’s primary the party pushed Valls aside and opted for a dynamic, radical alternative: Benoît Hamon, the Breton bantam who is often called France’s answer to Bernie Sanders. His proposal is for a universal income of €750 a month, or about $1,050 in Canadian currency. The universal basic income is of interest to future-minded politicians because that low-skill mental and physical work seems to be disappearing.

Source: National Post January 30, 2017 20:09 UTC