A UBI fosters working class solidarity and provides necessary resources for people with disabilities

(Jack - former disability policy analyst, federal lobbyist and congressional intern, “Universal Benefits Will Help People With Disabilities Escape Poverty,” 2 July 2019, https://truthout.org/articles/universal-benefits-will-help-people-with-disabilities-escape-poverty/)

A Universal Basic Income (UBI) with increased funding for people with disabilities who are unable to work, united with a single-payer health system and a federal jobs guarantee, will ease the transition out of poverty. A UBI would provide much needed extra income for people with disabilities living on the margins and aid in reducing poverty in the U.S. A new universal benefits system can be achieved. When investments in health care, federal jobs and income are made, economic pressure can be alleviated. These policies will have certain impact in reducing poverty for the disability community in the long run and create a system that is based on sustainable universal equality and solidarity. When a new universal benefits system is achieved and a model that accounts for people with disabilities as people, working-class solidarity is built. A universal benefits program will maintain disability rights as human rights by including all working-class people into a universal program. Under a universal benefits model, people with and without disabilities are banded together and all are invested in a system that works to meet the needs of beneficiaries. By achieving a universal benefits model, attacks to the benefits system will be easier to stop, and all people will be invested into a system that delivers economic justice and inclusion. Within the wealthiest society in the existence of humankind, a person with a disability should not be forced between living off $12,000 a year and losing much-needed benefits. For too long, people in the disability community have been overlooked by employers and elected officials. The U.S. has enough resources to fund the abolition of poverty of all workers, especially for vulnerable people with disabilities. Working people, poor people and people with disabilities must unite for a system that redistributes wealth to solve the U.S. poverty crisis and guarantees that all people, including those with disabilities, have a job, comprehensive health care and a basic income.