It notes that "we will never forget how important a decent basic income is to a child's prospects and wellbeing".
A decent basic state pension would be a good start, supplemented with a top-up based on total career earnings and funded by compulsory employer/employee contributions.
Such a union at Foxconn would not only be able to negotiate a decent basic wage, it could also foster a sense of community that would help protect the rights and dignity of all employees.
Togo's makes a decent, basic selection of hot and cold sandwiches, salads and soups; an easy-to-use interface allows you to specify size, type of bread and toppings.
Asked if it is the job of government to make "sure that every family has a decent basic minimum income" three-quarters of Britons, 74%, agree, against just 16% who believe this should not be the state's concern.
He had not been the best student – "a bit of a brawler, easily led, but popular", according to his mother – but had decent basic qualifications and was a keen sportsman.
Since wealthy students who went to private schools are much more likely to pass university entrance exams, that is shockingly regressive and wasteful too, since the return to the taxpayer from a decent basic education for many would be much higher than from degrees for the few.But the most damaging practices have to do with pensions again.
In Baghdad several thousand gathered in their own Tahrir Square, and are likely to do so again on March 4th, Friday being the traditional day for mass protests.The anger is being aroused mainly by the government's continuing failure to provide decent basic services, such as a regular supply of electricity, and by the corruption and sloth of their elected representatives.
"There is a capacity now for terrorists to wreak havoc and destruction on a scale we could never imagine before, and I think people of all faiths, of all political persuasions, everyone who shares the same decent basic values, can take a stand against this type of terrorism".
One reason I argue for a decent basic state pension linked to earnings is not simply to be nice to pensioners but to provide an incentive for people to save for themselves - if they're totally reliant on state benefits there's little incentive.
