Category: Basic Income

A temperature screening robot in Seoul Medical Center. (Yonhap) SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic is propagating rapidly across the globe, boosting the popularity of so-called “untact” services, and promoting Fourth Industrial Revolution technology based on artificial intelligence.

Many companies have been increasing spending on automation, including robot purchases, in light of the pandemic.

The International Federation of Robotics estimates that there are 774 industrial robots per 10,000 employees installed in South Korea, which has a higher automation rate than the European average of 114 robots, Germany at 338 robots, and Japan at 327 robots.Industry watchers predict the […]

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Kayode Fayemi

Never in our lifetime have we endured the kind of socio-economic disruption the world is currently experiencing, as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) ravages people, and continues to cause massive economic displacements across the globe. Since the virus was discovered, it has infected two million people, and caused over 131,000 confirmed deaths in 213 countries, areas or territories. Apart from the significant loss of lives, the virus is now likely to cause a contraction in the global economy.

Nigeria is not insulated from the public health and economic crises. We have recorded 493 cases with 17 deaths, across 19 […]

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Food. Photo by Kyle Nieber on Unsplash South African Food Sovereignty Campaign co-founder Vishwas Satgar told the Sunday Times that their estimates were that the number of “food-stressed people” had doubled from last year to 30-million.

This includes 4-million people in the informal sector who cannot work and 18-million people on social grants who do not earn enough to buy increasingly expensive food, according to the newspaper.

The organisation represents small-scale farmers, farmworkers and food NGOs.“There are 1-million domestic workers and nearly 90,000 waste-pickers who don’t have money to buy food. There are 3.5-million elderly people and 12-million children whose grants […]

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As Poslovni Dnevnik/Tomislav Pili writes on the 18th of April, 2020, the decades-old idea of ​​universal income that all citizens would receive, whether they’re employed or not, has come back to life once again with the outbreak of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Although some economists consider it a necessary instrument for the recovery of economies in general, the second stream of thought nevertheless considers it an entirely utopian proposition.For the time being, Spain is the country considering the most concrete introduction of universal income. The Spanish Government wants to accelerate the introduction of "universal […]

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Emergency Covid-19 payments have shown the time has come for a Universal Basic Income, writes Willie O’Dea

‘You get the payment direct, no signing on, no queueing up’

DURING the global financial crash of 2008, governments across the globe scrambled desperately to bail out their crumbling banking systems. The goal was to protect national economies from collapse, with the public footing the bill.Having bailed out the banks in 2008, we will need to bail out the people post-coronavirus: people who have lost their jobs; people who have endured considerable personal sacrifice; people in frontline services who have put themselves at […]

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The case for and against a universal basic income in the … https://www.vox.com/2017/5/12/13954182/case-for-and-against-universal-basic-income-united-states Promoting the idea of a Universal Basic Income is just plain irresponsible . The current government definition of absolute poverty in the UK is an income of around https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/promoting-the-idea-of-a-universal-basic-income-is-just-plain-irresponsible-266787 What are the benefits of Universal Basic Income? Fighting technological unemployment. With advanced technology taking over more and more blue and white collar jobs, UBI would act as a sort of security net for the millions of people who will be left jobless by the tech revolution. https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/universal-basic-income-pros-cons/ Apr 13, 2020 · With Coronavirus dominating the news […]

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Hungry children offer up a little prayer for food. They are among millions going hungry as a result of the national lockdown, which is keeping breadwinners out of work. The children above were being given a meal this week by the Prince Albert Community Trust, in the Western Cape, which provides food for them during the lockdown at the Path Out of Poverty centre.
Image: Esa Alexander

As the government grapples with finalising a plan to feed a growing number of desperately hungry people amid the Covid-19 national lockdown, shelters say they are seeing starving people who have […]

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After a memorable performance in the second Democratic debate last July, entrepreneur Andrew Yang rose rapidly from obscurity. In the last quarter of 2019, the campaign announced a massive $16.5 million fundraising haul .“Yang Gang,” as his supporters affectionately dubbed themselves, was on fire, fiercely contending that a Taiwanese American businessman and his signature “Freedom Dividend,” a $1,000 universal basic income given by the federal government to every American, could win the Oval Office.

Despite early traction, Yang’s polling numbers were simply not delivering as primary season rolled around, and he regretfully announced the end of his campaign on February […]

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https://fee.org/articles/universal-basic-income-has-been-tried-before-it-didn-t-work/ $ for Startup incubator Y Combinator is expanding their research into the benefits of universal basic income (UBI). In a new blog post published on the company’s website this week, they reveal their plans to pick individuals from two states at random to receive a monthly cash handout. https://futurism.com/people-in-two-u-s-states-will-get-1000-a-month-in-a-new-basic-income-trial Universal Basic Income: An Idea That’s Already Been Tried And Failed. With the madness of the midterm elections behind us, the sprint toward the 2020 presidential election has begun. And some Democrats eyeing to unseat President Trump have dusted off an old idea of theirs to drum up support: […]

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