Category: Basic Income

Old Berlusconi is now breaking the formation of a new government.

"In the last phone call, I advised Salvinia to give up the five-star movement," Silvio today at Aosta [Berlusconi adding that the content of the coalition treaty is very worrying. "It has a number of points against the right center program. The difference between the parties Next Italy and the league are currently very big," according to the Italian media, said the 81-year-old.

On the other hand, Matteo Salvini claims that the coalition agreement contains a number of program points in his league and the alliance with […]

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The rich aren’t actually as scary as you’re making them out to be

I’m under no illusions that this is an easy sell, but guess what makes it an even harder sell

Making the rich out to be impossible to beat so we might as well never try to control the narrative I’m sick and tired of my side ceding the messaging battle to the other side because it’s too hard/they’re not to be trifled with/etc. Most things worth doing aren’t easy We should do them anyway and start this conversation now They’re worse, […]

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ROME, May 18 (Xinhua) — Italy’s populist Five Star Movement on Friday posted online a final version of its so-called "contract" with the rightwing League, outlining how the two forces plan to govern Italy.

The two parties are the relative winners of Italy’s March 4 general election, and have been in power-sharing talks.

The final document watered down more radical proposals contained in earlier versions, which suggested Italy should leave the eurozone and asked the European Central Bank (ECB) for a debt haircut of 250 billion euros to pay for generous public spending and drastic tax cuts.The 57-page, 30-point final version […]

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ROME: Anti-establishment and far-right parties began haggling over who will be Italy’s next prime minister after publishing a joint policy program Friday that brought the eurozone’s third-largest economy a step closer to a populist government.

The political deadlock brought about by March’s inconclusive elections neared its end after the plan’s unveiling by the Five Star Movement and the far-right League party.

The program promises the end of postcrisis austerity measures and seeks deep change in relations with the European Union.The two parties now need to announce a prime ministerial candidate in time for a meeting Monday with President Sergio Mattarella.Mattarella must […]

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I decided to take some time and run some numbers on this. My numbers are not absolute as I used Google and used what LOOKED like official numbers. They may be off to some degree or they may be absolutely wrong. So once again, I am not saying these numbers are the end all to be all. With that disclaimer out of the way, here is what I came up with.

First, I started with the assumption that this basic income(BI) is only for those who are 18 and over. This is because children should be raised […]

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Georgia State University in Atlanta is a state college in an area with some of the country’s best known black colleges, which are there mainly because, until the 1960s, Georgia State was segregated. Now the black colleges are looking at Georgia State’s innovations to learn how to better serve their own student populations.

It feels good to write an unreservedly positive story about education, even if I had to go to Georgia to find it. Even better, the model they use is already in place to a lesser extent in our universities and can be expanded by increasing services and […]

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” and basic income will be rolled out on a national scale if the experiment proves effective. 14 Mar 2017 That’s the idea behind the universal basic income (UBI) — and it is UBI was a hot topic at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in economics are almost universally against the idea,” Smetters says. It may surprise you to learn that a partial UBI has already existed in Alaska since the idea of basic income, and this is true even of many economists – but not all . 26 Nov 2017 Is an unconditional, universal basic income […]

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Anti-establishment and far-right parties began haggling over who will be Italy’s next prime minister after publishing a joint policy programme on Friday that brought the eurozone’s third largest economy a step closer to a populist government.

The political deadlock brought about by March’s inconclusive elections neared its end after the plan’s unveiling by the Five Star Movement and the far-right League party.

The programme promises the end of post-crisis austerity measures and seeks deep change in relations with the European Union.Five Star members have until Friday evening to vote online on whether to approve the programme, while the League will offer […]

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The innovations in artificial intelligence over the past several years are growing exponentially frequent and indicate a shift in how we work, live, and play. From self-driving cars and automated auto factories to bots that write news articles for the Associated Press, automation is spelling out the question many people don’t want to think about answering: What will we do if and when robots render human workers obsolete?

The fears are understandable. Robots are able to complete the work of more than five people and there are almost 5 times as many robots per thousand workers in the U.S. than […]

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Gwynne Dyer’s latest book is Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work).

There is a remarkable lack of enthusiasm for free money.

A recent poll asked people in the work force to rank their preferences: a higher minimum wage; legally enforced profit-sharing by employers; direct government subsidies to wages; and a universal basic income (UBI). Most of them put UBI in last place.That’s not really surprising. People who cannot imagine a different economic environment are naturally reluctant to break the link between work and compensation. But if we are moving toward a future where work is not available for half […]

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