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Sir Michael Marmot on COVID-19, inequality, and the future of society

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Adult Social Care Is Thinking About the End of Life

Why don't we have a proper profession for workers in adult social care with decent pay and conditions, not as so man a be part of the gig economy? But that's a more general issue. We need a thorough rethinking about the nature of work. There had been some debate about universal basic income. O'd be quite good if we had politicians thinking about it too. Of what kind of society we based on principles of equity of health and well being. For a million people were going to food banks in a year before the pandemic. Do we really think that the way people should remain fed is to have resort to food banks?

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