Steve May: Basic income in the age of precarious work

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Steve May, who is a former member of the Vermont AFL-CIO executive board and past vice president of the Champlain Valley Central Labor Council, May also is a clinical social worker and member of the Selectboard in Richmond, where he resides.
This is supposed to be a financial boon time. The Vermont Department of Labor just published numbers for September and unemployment is 2.9 percent statewide. Three percent is generally considered to be full employme