Brazil: Small city in Brazil implements a modest, partial basic income

Maricá at a distance.

Original article by Eduardo Suplicy

Last Saturday, May 25 th 2019, an event took place in Maricá , a city on the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, where the mayor Fabiano Horta (representant from PT, Partido dos Trabalhadores), vice mayor Marcos Ribeiro and the secretary of Solidarity Economy, Diego Zeidan, announced that, from July 2019 onward, 50000 citizens, a third of its 150000 inhabitants, will receive a Citizen’s Basic Income of 130 Mumbucas , a local electronic currency, equivalent to 130 reais, or US$ 32,5 per month. The plan is to have all Maricá’s […]

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