Category: Basic Income

Nicola Sturgeon has announced the Scottish Government’s plans for the year ahead. It sets out bold new measures to make Scotland the fairer nation we all want it to be.

Here’s just some of what we’ll do in the next year to tackle poverty and inequality. Establishing a fairer social security system

The location of Scotland’s new social security agency will be announced this autumn. An increased Carer’s Allowance will be delivered from next year. A new Best Start Grant will be introduced from summer 2019 – supporting low income families at key stages of a child’s […]

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BAY OF PLENTY TIMES Hugh Robb: Tauranga’s voters need an alternative

Hugh Robb says as an independent candidate, he can be more objective about things. Photo/Andrew Warner. Independent candidate for Tauranga Hugh Robb says the city’s voters need an alternative.

"I’ve seen us give our loyalty to the National Party," the 53-year-old said."We’re a safe National seat and I think we’ve been taken for granted."Mr Robb, who lived in Merivale, said tolling roads to the Port of Tauranga was a classic example of that."These roads contribute hundreds of billions to the national economy and yet local residents have to […]

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The Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) held a rally on September 8 outside Channel Seven’s Sunrise studio in Martin Place. Calling for an end to the demonisation of jobseekers, the Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) held a rally on September 8 outside Channel Seven’s Sunrise studio in Martin Place. They opposed the vilification of Australia’s economically disadvantaged in Sunrise programs such as "Australia’s worst dole bludging areas named and shamed", in which commentators called for punitive welfare penalties.

The AUWU believes Channel Seven has provoked downward envy with selective citing of statistics and loaded statements like: “Just 10% of welfare […]

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Universal basic income has been touted by many in the technology sector as a possible answer to the problem of automation. Amidst fears that big data, robotics, and artificial intelligence put up to 47% of jobs at risk by 2050, experts – both in Silicon Valley and in academia – have suggested basic income holds the solution to unemployment.

On the traditional Left, the case for a basic income has been made most forcefully by Guy Standing and his work on the emerging precariat, the term Standing uses to define highly flexible mainstream workers. These workers are subject to insecure […]

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To his credit, Singh has turned a whispering campaign into a talking point that plays to his advantage. NDP leadersip candidate Jagmeet Singh during a meeting with the Toronto Star’s editorial board on Sept. 15, 2017. Singh’s platform advocates for higher taxes on wealthy Canadians, the decriminalization of petty drug possession, a basic income for seniors and Canadians with disabilities, ending unpaid internships and a federally imposed $15 an hour minimum wage. New Democrats have a decision to make about social democracy.

As they begin voting Monday for their next federal leader, will they have the “love and courage” to […]

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In politics it is claimed that the important things are not what candidates say, but what voters hear. Hillary Clinton’s memoir, What Happened, finesses this by suggesting that it might be as vital to understand what politicians considered before discarding . One surprising policy proposal the former Democratic presidential candidate contemplated was a form of universal basic income (UBI). Mrs Clinton eventually backed away – but now thinks she should have “ thrown caution to the wind ”. Her campaign suffered from the lack of inspiring policies to energise voters. For the most centrist, wonkiest politician of her generation […]

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Hillary Clinton should have ‘thrown caution to the wind’ and backed yearly payments to US citizens. These could’ve been dividends from a fund financed by levying duties on tech giants that profit from a collective loss of privacy
In politics it is claimed that the important things are not what candidates say, but what voters hear. Hillary Clinton’s memoir, What Happened, finesses this by suggesting that it might be as vital to understand what politicians considered before discarding . One surprising policy proposal the former Democratic presidential candidate contemplated was […]

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The White House is bracing for a tax reform fight, with Democrats already on guard for any plan rewarding the rich (US president Trump is denying this will happen: “The rich will not be gaining at all with this plan,” he said on Sept. 13). On the other end of the spectrum (and the country), Silicon Valley congressional representative Ro Khanna is introducing his own plan: a $1.4 trillion tax credit that could move the US closer to something resembling a universal basic income (UBI).

Khanna, whose district includes the headquarters of tech’s biggest companies, co-sponsored the Grow American Incomes […]

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Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, meets with Anchorage residents at a local restaurant. ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – The co-founder of Facebook, Chris Hughes, spent Thursday touring Anchorage and meeting with Alaskans in order to discover what they think about the Alaskan permanent fund dividend. Specifically, one of the men behind the mega social network is looking at the growing interest in a radical new economic proposal.

This, after several entrepreneurial and world leaders have discussed the potential of what’s being called a "universal basic income" for all citizens.

Mark Zuckerberg visited Alaska earlier this past summer on a vacation and as part […]

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