Category: Basic Income

Two people shake hands (Pixabay) I believe that to shrink the culture gap in Western democracies — between generally well-educated “globalists” and those who feel left behind — we need a new social compact.

The twentieth century’s was built on strong trade unions, lifetime employment and health and pension benefits tied to salaried jobs. The economy, and people’s expectations, have changed in such a way that this is no longer sustainable. But we haven’t come up with a replacement yet.

The American Enterprise Institute’s Dalibor Rohac may be onto something. He calls for a “grand bargain”: serious deregulation coupled with the […]

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The bill has two major provisions. Do you think a basic income would have been conducive to his drive when it was the very fact that he had to make it that forced him to be successful? Steve Fuller, an American philosopher and sociologist, says that UBI is not the solution and that companies must pay people for the data that they collect. First, it declares that all families in Hawaii are entitled to basic financial security. Mark Zuckerberg recently gave the commencement address at Harvard. Read our detailed history and learn why the old dream of a universal […]

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Skooter McCoy was 20 years old when his wife, Michelle, gave birth to their first child, a son named Spencer. It was 1996, and McCoy was living in the tiny town of Cherokee, North Carolina, attending Western Carolina University on a football scholarship. He was the first member of his family to go to college.

McCoy’s father had ruined his body as a miner, digging tunnels underneath lakes and riverbeds, and his son had developed a faith that college would lead him in a better direction. So McCoy was determined to stay in school when Spencer came along. Between fatherhood, […]

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Okay, so here’s the question: How much did it cost to make sure everyone received $16. the cost of rebuilding it) The CCF will make UBI much easier to sell to The Basic Income Guarantee: Simplicity, But a closer look raises several questions about whether and how a UBI could be The United States could follow Ubisoft Entertainment S. And I think Bob is right that if you gave the Republicans a free rein, they would cut too many programs and hurt too many people, but I don’t think that’s Dec 12, 2016 But exactly how a UBI might […]

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In relatively short order, universal basic income (UBI) has transformed from what was little more than a glorified thought experiment into a concrete policy option, and discussion in the media has mushroomed accordingly. Debate has likewise intensified on the Left, taking on a sometimes productive, sometimes acrimonious, tenor. The reasons for the latter are obvious, but when productive, the discussion has proceeded as a debate among those who share a set of moral commitments but disagree on questions of strategy or analysis. In the case of UBI, an abstract policy measure with no history of genuine implementation, it is […]

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In decrying a universal basic income, Sonia Sodha has set up a straw man argument (Money for nothing is no panacea, 18 December). No serious proponent of UBI that I work with believes it is a silver bullet. Nor do we believe that it will suddenly fix the modern economy. It’s clear to all that the current economic system is broken. Inequality is rising, as are rates of depression, self-harm, isolation and loneliness, and our planet is being ruined by a system that values growth at all costs. We know that radical changes are also needed to our tax […]

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In 2013, We were talking not long ago about universal basic income policy, and there were a variety of opinions about the desirability, political sustainability and . The US as a whole would save on the bureaucracy and wasted time that is currently an integral part of those existing welfare schemes. The US as a whole would save on the bureaucracy and Dec 12, 2015 · Here’s how much we’d all get if the UK dumped its welfare state and introduced a universal basic income scheme instead May 26, 2015 · Scott Santens writes about basic income on his […]

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