Category: Basic Income

Next Year, a Californian City Will Launch the First Basic Income Experiment in the U.S.

Next Year, a Californian City Will Launch the First Basic Income Experiment in the U.S.

Stockton, California, is about to become the first city to test government-supported universal basic income in the U.S. The program is the idea of the city’s 27-year-old mayor and will be primarily funded by the basic income advocacy group Economic Security Project. No Strings Attached

The idea of a guaranteed income for all citizens regardless of their social and economic standing is called universal basic income (UBI) , and it’s been floating around for centuries. Thomas Paine wrote about it back in the 1790s, and in 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. expressed his support for a universal basic income […]

Ghana Launches 2017 State Of World Population Report

Ghana Launches 2017 State Of World Population Report

A 136-page document indicating the State of World Population 2017 report has been launched by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), entitled “World Apart: Reproductive health and rights in an age of inequality”.

The report suggested 10-point actions to help nations to bridge the inequality gap between the poor and the rich in the society.

The report also emphasised on the need to meet all unmet needs for family planning by prioritising women in the poorest 40 per cent of households; reach the poorest women with essential, life-saving antenatal and maternal health care.It also called on nations to tear down […]

City of Stockton to Consider America’s First Basic Income Grant

City of Stockton to Consider America’s First Basic Income Grant

Stockton (Max Whittaker / Reuters) The city of Stockton, California, is planning to offer a basic income grant of $500 per month to poor residents, making it the first U.S. city to provide a guaranteed income.

Mayor Michael Tubbs announced the program on Wednesday, according to Capital Public Radio . “This is not a handout, it’s a hand up,” he reportedly said. The program is to be privately funded by the Economic Security Project , which Capital Public Radio describes as “a network of researchers, elected leaders, and organizers” and which is run by Facebook co-founder and Barack Obama […]

Lab Report: How Amazon Changed Seattle

Lab Report: How Amazon Changed Seattle

Firsthand Amazon experience: As the deadline closes today for cities to bid on “HQ2,” a Seattle journalist narrates that city’s experience since Amazon set up camp in the 1990s, via Politico Magazine : Most would acknowledge the extraordinary prosperity that Amazon has brought to Seattle since Jeff Bezos and his startup arrived in 1994. But they are also keenly aware of the costs, not least the nation’s fastest-rising housing prices, appalling traffic and a painful erosion of urban identity. What was once a quirkily mellow, solidly middle-class city now feels like a stressed-out, two-tier town with a thin layer […]

Building security into drawdown solutions

Building security into drawdown solutions

Peter Carter, product and marketing director at Retirement Advantage, explains the importance of tailored solutions when advising on drawdown options.

Q: What is the best way for advisers to approach conversations with clients around the various at-retirement decisions? How can they balance the traditional appeal of annuities with the benefits of flexible drawdown?

A: The key, as always, is achieving balance. In 2014, George Osborne announced that there was no need for anybody to buy an annuity again. However, the truth is people like the outcome an annuity gives them, although they may also want the benefits of a […]

2017 Lower House Election / Parties’ campaign promises stress support for childcare

2017 Lower House Election / Parties’ campaign promises stress support for childcare

The Yomiuri Shimbun The public has a great interest in social security policies that address health care, nursing care and children on nursery school waiting lists, and each political party is seeking to attract voters by including measures to resolve social security-related issues and ease the public’s burden in their policy platforms for the House of Representatives election.

If spending on social security is increased, the national debt and the public burden will increase. The balance between premiums and benefits, as well as financial resources for such measures, are likely to draw scrutiny.

The Liberal Democratic Party vows that it will […]

A US city is launching its own universal basic income, with a twist

A US city is launching its own universal basic income, with a twist

Michael Tubbs, the mayor of Stockton. Scotland, Canada and Finland have all done it. And now the US is becoming the latest country to put forward universal basic income (UBI) as the solution to its economic woes.

UBI is the idea that you pay a fixed sum of money, hundreds or even thousands of pounds, to every single person in a country regardless of their income or status.

Read more: Scotland is considering a universal basic income for its citizens And no, it’s not being pushed by Donald Trump.Instead, 27-year-old Michael Tubbs, the mayor of Stockton, California, hopes UBI might […]

By The Basic Income Podcast

By The Basic Income Podcast

What new initiatives are starting in the basic income space? The Economic Security Project has funded a variety of exciting basic income projects and launched a few of its own. The project’s Co-Chair Natalie Foster and Special Initiatives Director Cara Rose DeFabio joined Jim for a live Q&A at an event in San Francisco, where […]

Owen and Jim discuss Vice President Joe Biden’s recent objections to basic income, and the practical and philosophical points that come up around basic income and employment. They delve into why a basic income could be good for workers and how automation has both […]

The Hidden Costs of Variable Annuities and How to Avoid Them

The Hidden Costs of Variable Annuities and How to Avoid Them

When people seeking guaranteed income turn to annuities, they are gaining security … but they need to realize what it’s costing them. Surrender charges, fees and earnings caps all come into play. Getty Images Annuity sales are escalating, with people looking to roll over retirement savings accounts or other assets into an ongoing income stream. Variable annuities appeal to people because they offer mutual fund investment choices, locked-in gains (or protection from bad market years) and death benefits.

While the promises of guaranteed minimum returns and regular payouts are tempting, not all offer a decent value. Many variable annuities have […]

/pol/ – Politically Incorrect

/pol/ - Politically Incorrect

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you could you would just be living on a minimal living

you would say to yourself i might as well try to make more
>>145844072 thats why i dont like the term UBIi say NIT usuallybut UBI for the poor is my other way of saying ituniversal is pure evil who want to pay money to people who dont need it >> >>145844344 competition lowers pricesif you have any money at all transfering to the lower class they will eventually build up enough to start businesses more so than without the ubi transferfact. and that would in turn […]