In the UK we already have Child Benefit, which functions as a universal benefit for children. We have already discussed the UK’s NHS: a universal, unconditional, nonwithdrawable and highly efficient public service. In this chapter I shall discuss the social dividend (a form of Citizen’s Basic Income) distributed in Alaska, Citizen’s Basic Income pilot projects conducted in Namibia and India, Iran’s cash benefit, and a number of other experiments. Alaska
Since 1977 the State of Alaska has been receiving royalties from oil extraction on state-owned land at Prudhoe Bay, and about 20% of the royalties have been saved in […]
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