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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back after Ivanka Trump knocks universal basic income: ‘I actually worked for tips and hourly wages’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back after Ivanka Trump knocks universal basic income: ‘I actually worked for tips and hourly wages’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took a jab at Ivanka Trump after the senior White House adviser said she does not think most people believe in the congresswoman’s proposal for universal jobs guarantee.

In an interview released Monday by Fox News , Trump was asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal and what she would say to people who are intrigued by the legislation’s universal jobs guarantee. In response, Trump said, “I don’t think most Americans in their heart want to be given something.”

“I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years,” Trump continued. […]

Towards a sustainable Universal Basic Income: Can PM-KISAN surmount implementation hurdles?

Towards a sustainable Universal Basic Income: Can PM-KISAN surmount implementation hurdles?

By Barendra Kumar Bhoi

In the Economic Survey 2016-17, Arvind Subramanian, the former Chief Economic Adviser, for the first time initiated a debate on Universal Basic Income (UBI) in India. In western countries, UBI is prevalent as existing social security measures are often inadequate to sustain the minimum standard of living by the poor people. In the West, UBI is not a permanent feature of public policy, as young people get jobs, at least in the upswing of the business cycle, while old and disabled manage their affairs with the available social security measures.

While presenting the Interim Budget, the […]

Pelosi Knocks Medicare for All, Green New Deal

Pelosi Knocks Medicare for All, Green New Deal

Rolling Stone has a new interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A few highlights from the interview, conducted last month by Tessa Stuart and Jann S. Wenner:

On the Green New Deal: “It’s an economic issue, and it is a moral issue to pass this planet on to future generations in the best possible way. As a Catholic, I believe that this is God’s creation, and we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of it. … In any event, to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, we have to put a price on coal, on carbon. It […]

Eyes on Stockton, US economic future at summit

The renowned economist struck up a conversation with the driver. When Mitchell said he was catching a flight to speak at the 30th annual Economic Forecast in Stockton, the driver exclaimed, “Stockton. That’s the place with the guaranteed income.”

Known widely during the recession in the late 2000s as the largest U.S. municipality to go bankrupt in 2012 — only to be usurped by Detroit, Michigan — Stockton apparently now is widely known for the Universal Basic Income experiment, in which 100 residents will be given $500 monthly stipends for 18 months with no strings attached through the Economic Security […]

Rethinking the job paradigm: Need increased focus on developing ‘mass services’ as driver of growth

Rethinking the job paradigm: Need increased focus on developing ‘mass services’ as driver of growth

As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, we have to necessarily ‘reboot’ our models if we have to deliver jobs with growth

Since the industrial revolution in the mid 19th century, countries have followed the twin strategies of manufacturing growth and merchandise exports to create millions of new jobs. (Representational photo) Jobs has become the ‘hottest’ political battle as the Lok Sabha elections approaches, as media reports on jobs data from the NSSO survey, and earlier in 2017 from the labour ministry survey of establishments, point towards job-less growth. While the government has raised questions on the accuracy of […]

Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too

Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too

Photo: Ian Forsyth (Getty) When pundits, politicians, or advocates have talked about the need to reduce fossil fuel production to combat climate change, one of the most common rejoinders has been to appeal to that most central of American concerns—it creates a lot of jobs . Oil industry backers are often touting the notion that it creates lots of decent-paying jobs. It’s also why Trump loves coal; these are generally perceived as very solid and very American jobs.

We know by now that there are actually comparatively very few coal jobs left. But oil and gas companies are automating their […]

Scanning the Range’s future

Scanning the Range’s future

EVELETH — Second-year Advanced Level Welding Technology students David Kangas and Derek Steinbach stand outside a cage surrounding two robotic welders and watch as sparks fly while the torch arm on one robot completes a couple welds.

Other second-year students gather around to observe what the new technology at Mesabi Range College’s Eveleth campus can accomplish.

The robot has performed the most dangerous part of the job. But labor also went into programming the automation to do what the students wanted.Robotic welding is a growing part of the welding industry. And to provide MRC students with skills necessary to compete in […]

Ivanka Trump’s Criticism of the Green New Deal’s Job Guarantee Is Misleading

Ivanka Trump’s Criticism of the Green New Deal’s Job Guarantee Is Misleading

Everyone has an opinion on the Green New Deal including first daughter Ivanka Trump . The eldest Trump daughter, who also acts as a White House aide to the president, spoke out against the progressive environmental and economic plan in an interview that aired Monday, February 25. Like her dad often does, though, Trump founded her criticism of this proposed policy on information that doesn’t coincide with reality.

“I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum [income] is not something most people want,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Steve Hilton , referring to the Green New […]

Yang pitches plan for basic income in ‘Conversation with the Candidate’

Yang pitches plan for basic income in 'Conversation with the Candidate'

MANCHESTER, N.H. —

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang laid out the central themes of his campaign Tuesday in a taping of "Conversation with the Candidate" at WMUR.

Yang took questions from voters and discussed his plan to provide a universal basic income to all Americans. The Freedom Dividend would be $1,000 per month that would replace some of the welfare state."If you opt in, then you are forgoing benefits from some of these other programs," Yang said. "Many of these people would prefer $1,000 a month with no monitoring and no paperwork and that stuff to their current program, so […]

Universal basic income pilot a test of just how far government can go

Universal basic income pilot a test of just how far government can go

In this Feb. 29, 2012, file photo, a Stockton city worker walks away from city hall in Stockton, Calif. Stockton, a Northern California city, plans to give several dozen families $500 a month for a year as part of a program to study the economic and social impacts of giving people a basic income. At a time when Republicans, Democrats and even some libertarians are moving in a more populist direction, a relatively new policy idea has begun to make forays into the political mainstream. Universal Basic Income, or UBI, would simply cut citizens a monthly check — a […]