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2021</span></div></div></div></div></div></section></div><div class="dynamic-layouts-container-column layout-builder--layout__region col-lg-4 "><section class="block block-addtoany block-addtoany-block clearfix"><span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/10/16/pope-francis-universal-basic-income-george-floyd-241668" data-a2a-title="Pope Francis’ 9 commandments for a just economy"><div class="soucialLinks"><a href="" title="facebook" class="a2a_button_facebook facebook"></a></div><div class="soucialLinks"><a href="" title="twitter" class="a2a_button_twitter twitter"></a></div><div class="soucialLinks"><a href="" title="mail" class="a2a_button_email mail"></a></div><div class="soucialLinks"><a onclick="myFunction()" class="print"></a></div></span></section></div></div></div></div><div class="container"><div class="dynamic-layouts-container bootstrap-12"><div class="dynamic-layout-row row"><div 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necessary sometimes to help a family survive, job creation is what will help them thrive, Pope Francis said in a video message played at a business conference in Argentina Oct. 14, 2021. (CNS screenshot/Vatican Media)</span></div></div></div></div></section><section class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodearticlebody clearfix"><div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=AMMD1830947385&light=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><p>Pope Francis, in a keynote address to the popular movements, a group that includes activists working on a wide variety of justice causes, called for a universal basic income and the shortening of the working day. He also praised the protest movement that followed the murder of George Floyd.</p><p>In a powerful 38-minute video talk to representatives of these movements on all continents that is sure to spark discussion, Pope Francis renewed his call for a universal basic income and advocated the shortening of the working day as partial solutions to the economic crisis so many millions are experiencing.</p><p>He also made specific appeals “in the name of God” to those responsible for key sectors of today’s world economy, especially in this time of pandemic: the pharmaceutical and food industries; the financial and credit institutions; the tech and telecommunications giants; the arms industry, as well as powerful countries, governments and politicians of all parties.</p><p><span class="contentTweetBlock">Pope Francis renewed his call for a universal basic income and advocated the shortening of the working day as partial solutions to the economic crisis so many millions are experiencing.</span></p><p>As a way to address the dire economic straits of so many people in the world and guarantee basic human dignity, and after consulting many specialists in the field, Francis called for “a basic income or salary so that everyone in the world may have access to the most basic necessities of life.”</p><p>“It is right to fight for a humane distribution of these resources, and it is up to governments to establish tax and redistribution schemes so that the wealth of one part of society is shared fairly, but without imposing an unbearable burden, especially upon the middle class,” the pope said.</p><p>He also advocated for shortening the workday as a way to improve the situation of people. “The minimum income is one [way to improve people’s situation] [way to improve people’s situation], the reduction of the working day is another possibility, and one that needs seriously to be explored,” he said. He recalled that in the 19th century, workers labored 12, 14 and 16 hours a day. When they achieved the eight-hour workday, nothing collapsed, contrary to what some sectors had predicted.</p><p>“I insist, working fewer hours so that more people can have access to the labor market is something we need to explore with some urgency,” he said.</p><p><span class="contentTweetBlock">“I insist, working fewer hours so that more people can have access to the labor market is something we need to explore with some urgency,” he said.</span></p><p>Pope Francis said, “I believe these measures are necessary, but of course not sufficient…but I wanted to mention them because they are possible measures and would point us in the right direction.”</p><p>The global audience for today’s address represents millions of social activists of grassroots movements on all continents, including those working in the gig economy, garbage pickers, farmworkers and representatives of the indigenous peoples.</p><p>In another part of his talk, he commended the protest movement over the death of George Floyd:</p><blockquote>Do you know what comes to mind now when, together with popular movements, I think of the Good Samaritan? Do you know what comes to mind? The protests over the death of George Floyd. It is clear that this type of reaction against social, racial or macho injustice can be manipulated or exploited by political machinations or whatever, but the main thing is that, in that protest against this death, there was the Collective Samaritan who is no fool! This movement did not pass by on the other side of the road when it saw the injury to human dignity caused by an abuse of power. The popular movements are not only social poets but also collective Samaritans.</blockquote><p>Throughout his pontificate, Francis has sought to encourage grassroots movements and organizations worldwide in their efforts to improve the lives of millions of people who live in poverty and misery. He asked the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace to convene the first World Meeting of Popular Movements and spoke at that gathering in the Vatican in October 2014. <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/pope-bolivia-calls-structural-changes-worlds-economy">He delivered a memorable talk</a> to representatives of these movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in June 2015, and he addressed them again at a third meeting in the Vatican in November 2016. Today was his fourth encounter with the popular movements.</p><p>In his talk today to a virtual audience, Pope Francis delivered a powerful message when he recalled how the pandemic has revealed the real state of the world’s economy where countless millions are struggling to survive amid dire poverty. Since they last met in Santa Cruz, he said, “A lot has happened in that time; a lot has changed. These changes mark points of no return, turning points, crossroads at which humanity must make choices. And new moments of encounter, discernment and joint action are needed. Every person, every organization, every country, and the whole world, needs to look for moments to reflect, discern and choose because returning to the previous mindsets would be truly suicidal and, if I may press the point a little, ecocidal and genocidal.”</p><p><span class="contentTweetBlock">"[When]I think of the Good Samaritan, do you know what comes to mind? The protests over the death of George Floyd," Pope Francis said.</span></p><p>He said, “Personal change is necessary, but it is also indispensable to adjust our socio-economic models so that they have a human face because many models have lost it. And thinking about these situations, I make a pest of myself with my questions.”</p><p>Aware that there are many, even even in the Catholic Church, who criticize him for what he says on the social justice questions, Francis in his talk emphasized that what he is asking and saying is all based on the church’s social teaching and is in line with what his predecessors, including John Paul II and Benedict XVI, have taught. “The pope must not stop mentioning this teaching, even if it often annoys people because what is at stake is not the pope but the Gospel.”</p><p>In his talk, Francis issued nine explicit calls “in the name of God” to those responsible for different sectors of the world’s economy.</p><p>1. He asked “<strong>the great pharmaceutical laboratories</strong> to release the patents” of the Covid-19 vaccines. He appealed to them: “Make a gesture of humanity and allow every country, every people, every human being, to have access to the vaccines.” He reminded them that there are countries “where only three or four percent of the inhabitants have been vaccinated.” Though he did not mention it, most countries in Africa fall into this category.</p><p>2. He called on <strong>financial groups and international credit institutions</strong> “to allow poor countries to assure ‘the basic needs of their people’ and to cancel those debts that so often are contracted against the interests of those same peoples.”</p><p>3. 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