Uganda’s working poor and the COVID-19 Caring Economy

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By Benard Mujuni Uganda, according to UBOS Uganda Demographic Household Survey 2018, has over 12.6 million workers in the informal sector. 60% of these are the working poor, who never save a penny but for their livelihoods thus have no fall back in case of trouble. These are the dependent workers we are talking about. Without giving them shelter, dinner, lunch, breakfast and some medical suppor