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The Facts: Te topic of UBI has surfaced again as German gets ready to begin a trial with some of its citizens.

Reflect On: Is there a deeper question behind UBI that isn’t often spoken about? A question that begins thinking outside of our current ideologies? When most people think of universal basic income we go through the standard path of questioning: how would it work? How would it be paid for? Are we really losing jobs that fast that we need this? What happens if people don’t contribute to society? Does it create more […]

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We are a nation adrift. Even before the pandemic and George Floyd’s death, the U.S. was piling on problems with little sense that we had either the leadership or the political will to address them. The coronavirus and Black Lives Matter protests have amplified those challenges, throwing older ones into stark relief and adding new ones.

I am as convinced as ever that this country has the strength and ingenuity to find its way out. I don’t know about you, but I see rising out of the multiple crises besetting us a bedrock recognition that there is much work to […]

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Scary Mommy and BergmanGroup/Getty We’ve been having this conversation for years, the discussion about why we need universal basic income (UBI) in the United States. While many of us are still waiting to receive stimulus checks and millions of people remain out of work and filing for unemployment , we need universal basic income now .

Other countries have done this–provided a monthly income check for all their citizens. Germany is piloting it this week amid the pandemic (because, duh, a pandemic is exactly the time that families are stretched thin and need this extra boost). We can look at […]

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The Advice NI Policy Team is delighted to publish our latest edition of our policy eNewsletter ‘THINK’. This edition has a wide range of issues including the new single Advice NI Helpline number, Universal Basic Income update, Work search and work availability requirements for JSA and Universal Credit claimants in N.I., Advice NI in new partnership project with the Trussell Trust, Legislation extended to protect renters, COVID-19: testing and contact tracing, Calculation of termination payments under employment rights legislation for employees who have been furloughed … and much, much more.

Please email us at policy@adviceni.net to discuss any policy matters, […]

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(From left) Charles Santiago and Dr Michael Jeyakumar have welcomed Mohamad Hasan’s proposal for a temporary universal basic income policy for the low-income group. PETALING JAYA: DAP MP Charles Santiago has called for bipartisan support to turn universal basic income (UBI) into reality as proposed by Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan.

Mohamad’s idea was also welcomed by Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) chairman Dr Michael Jeyakumar.

Santiago told FMT: “He’s (Mohamad) right in calling for a UBI. There can be bipartisan support for this and I would like to tell Mohamad we can hold a joint press conference about it. We need […]

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Get short URL One of the many Americans who loathes both political parties © Reuters / Jason Redmond Unity 2020, a campaign launched by ‘canceled’ Evergreen College Professor Bret Weinstein to join the disaffected left and right to ‘fix’ US democracy, has been yanked from Twitter and had its website banned.

The campaign’s Twitter account was suspended on Thursday night as US President Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2020 presidential race. Weinstein told his followers the account was disabled for " amplifying " the hashtag #JustSayNotoDonaldandJoe, which had been tweeted more than 11,000 times by the […]

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The coronavirus pandemic has hit economies across the globe where it hurts, with governments racking up debt left right and centre, and individuals having their livelihoods thrown into question. All in all, it’s laid bare the rampant inequalities that exist in society. Germany is going experimental in terms of patching up these disparities by giving universal basic income (UBI) a shot. UBI is the idea that governments should pay citizens a monthly stipend regardless of their employment status to improve professional and personal wellbeing.

Germany is starting a three-year study to observe the effects of universal basic income on […]

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We’ve been having this conversation for years, the discussion about why we need universal basic income (UBI) in the United States. While many of us are still waiting to receive stimulus checks and millions of people remain out of work and filing for unemployment , we need universal basic income now .

Other countries have done this–provided a monthly income check for all their citizens. Germany is piloting it this week amid the pandemic (because, duh, a pandemic is exactly the time that families are stretched thin and need this extra boost). We can look at other countries as a […]

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