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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at Rideau Cottage during the COVID pandemic in Ottawa on Dec. 1, 2020. OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared his thoughts about a universal basic income during a virtual town hall Wednesday, saying it’s an idea worth discussing but one the government isn’t itching to move ahead on.

The NDP have advocated the idea of basic income in the House of Commons during the pandemic, calling it a tool that could help eliminate poverty by ensuring Canadians have enough money to meet the basic necessities of life in food, clothing, and […]

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was willing to cripple her own party and watch people suffer from the pandemic, all for the greater purpose of ensuring President Trump’s defeat on Election Day.

She did it by blocking any reasonable bill that would have extended added unemployment benefits for the millions of people out of work and sent direct cash payments that would have further pushed the battered economy in the right direction. That could all wait if it meant Trump would no longer be president.

She was successful in that mission. Trump did not win reelection. Now she might consider helping actual […]

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It’s not that complicated — direct, recurring cash payments to all Americans is the only path forward to slow the spread of the virus, rebuild the economy, and keep people’s livelihoods afloat. Getty Images/iStockphoto As the clock winds down for congress to pass both a spending bill and any relief bill before the new year, the most prominent relief proposal in congress right now looks unlikely to pass. The $900 billion bill has been rejected by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , and so it appears millions of Americans will continue without any sort of relief

What’s more is that […]

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Rishi Sunak THE UK Government has told Glasgow City Council there are “fundamental problems” with introducing a universal basic income after councillors called for a scheme to be funded.

A motion put forward by City Treasurer Ricky Bell, which urged the UK and Scottish Governments to fund and commission a trial, was passed at October’s full council meeting.

Mr Bell said a UBI – which he described as a modest, unconditional payment, given to every citizen on a regular basis – would be the “most effective way to reduce poverty”.But in response to the request, a letter from HM Treasury, on […]

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Meet GoodDollar. The project, led by eToro CEO Yoni Assia, aims to deliver digital universal basic income (UBI) at scale. Built on the Ethereum mainnet and Fuse.io, GoodDollar enables those who sign up to receive a small daily income in G$ coins.

The company issued an update on figures since its September launch, with more than 40,000 people from 180 countries signing up and using the G$ digital currency. Of these, the company said more than half were ‘regular’ users, logging into their digital wallet every day. At the latest count, more than 14 million G$ had been distributed to […]

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Grassroots organizers are giving Newsom the chance to be a hero. He should take it.

Governor Newsom signs AB2147 into law. Photo credit: Office of the Governor of California In mid-September, Gavin Newsom sat amid a sepia landscape of torched forest in a bomber jacket and somberly signed a bill . It was the peak of the worst wildfire season in California’s modern history. The bill — AB2147 — would enable incarcerated people trained in firefighting to gain employment professionally upon release. The photo-op fit right into the greater historical arc of Governor Newsom’s political career — a […]

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The exemplary initiative, which uses decentralized financing as a way to generate digital income for users, announced that people have now demanded more than 14 million tokens.

GoodDollar’s Global Basic Income Project (UBI) has reached more than 40,000 people in 180 countries since it launched in September, according to Wednesday’s announcement. The project reported that more than half of the participants demanded their token daily on a reserve G $ basis. Currently, 14 million tokens have been announced.

The project introduces G $ tokens due to the benefit of unauthorized third-party protocols from the basket of cryptocurrencies. Individuals and sponsors receive […]

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