Category: Basic Income

Though he plans to spend most of his seven days as a homeless New Yorker in City Hall Park, mayoral candidate Mike Tolkin spent his first night on the floor of the Chambers Street subway station. (Twitter/@johnscandalios) “I’m tired,” mayoral candidate Mike Tolkin said.

The Democrat, who is running on the Smart Cities ballot, is one day into living seven days as a homeless New Yorker to raise awareness for the issue and highlight his plans to combat it.

“Yesterday, I could walk into a coffee shop and no one was going to look at me differently,” he said. “Today, I […]

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400 People to Receive a Basic Income This Month, Pilot Launching in Lindsay

Four hundred people from Hamilton, Brantford, Brant County and Thunder Bay and the surrounding area will be receiving a basic income this month as part of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP), giving them the chance to expand their opportunities and job prospects while providing greater security for themselves and their families.

Ontario’s economy is in a relatively strong position, however many people in the province are not feeling that growth in their everyday lives. People are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living […]

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The request was refused. County Administrator David Smitherman and the Board of Supervisors are taking this a tad lightly, I believe.

Why do I believe this? As one small example of the kind of base fire and rescue has, the Blairs Fire and Rescue Unit was a huge factor in allowing me to keep my mother in her own home instead of a nursing home in the last years of her life. That Unit also answered my call the night an electrical plug-in shot fire and blackened a house wall. Then one night this Unit got me up off the […]

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Lindsay is one of three communities taking place in the Ontario Basic Income Pilot, a three-year test project exploring whether an annual salary can help people in precarious work situations avoid poverty. The Government of Ontario’s pilot project for a basic income is launching in Lindsay next week.

Lindsay is one of three communities taking place in the basic income pilot, a three-year test project exploring whether an annual salary can help people in precarious work situations avoid poverty. The other two locations are Hamilton, Brantford and Brant County, and Thunder Bay (including Oliver Paipoonge, Shuniah, Neebing, Conmee, O’Connor and […]

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David Simon has come out in favor of universal basic income, due to the threat of automated labor. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images

David Simon, creator of the popular HBO series "The Wire," and most recently "The Deuce," has voiced his support for a system of wealth distribution known as universal basic income , in which every citizen receives a regular sum of money just for being alive.

"I think we’ve reached the point in terms of the death of work, and where we’re going in society and automation, that we should already be guaranteeing people a basic income," Simon recently told […]

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THUNDER BAY – People selected to participate in a basic income pilot can expect to start receiving payments this month.

The Ontario government announced 400 people in Hamilton, Brantford, and Thunder Bay and surrounding area will be receiving a basic income in October.

The Ontario Basic Income Pilot was first announced in April, 2017, providing eligible participants up to $16,989 per year for a single person and up to $24,027 per year for a couple, less 50 per cent of any earned income. Individuals living with a disability will receive an additional $6,000 per year.The pilot will take place over three […]

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Countries need to act now on accessing new-age technologies and preparing its citizens

Job opportunities are declining and fading away quickly and replaced by robots and new technologies. All of which create numerous economic and social complications.

Over the course of the next 20 years, 75 per cent of current professions will dissolve even though there would be many other job opportunities made available … yet that needs some time. Such a transformation will affect all aspects of life, including among the influential.For example, self-driving electric cars are to be pressed into service even though a poll conducted showed most Germans […]

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Introduction
Because of the publication of Thomas Straubhaar’s latest book Radikal gerecht – Wie das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen den Sozialstaat revolutioniert ( Radically just – How Universal Basic Income Can Revolutionize the Welfare State ) in February 2017 by the Körber Foundation, several articles in the German media appeared reflecting on the ideas outlined in the book. This gives me the opportunity to share with Basic Income News readers some of professor Straubhaar’s main ideas about Germany’s current social system, the modern challenges that in his view might jeopardize the old social fabric and his proposed response: a radical […]

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Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (NYSE:GTE) is on our radar right now but there could still be some opportunities on the horizon. Now trading with a market value of 868.52M, the company has a mix of catalysts and obstacles that spring from the nature of its operations. Everyone seems to have their own opinion of this stock. But what do the numbers really say? We think it’s a great time to take a fresh look.

Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (NYSE:GTE) Fundamentals That Matter

It’s generally a good idea to start with the most fundamental piece of the picture: the balance […]

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Nearly 90% of respondents to a New Zealand-based poll stated that, assuming that the economy was strong enough to support all residents, a universal basic income (UBI) was the fairest way to ensure basic support to all who need it, according to the independent news website Scoop .

Scoop, which conducted the poll via its Hivemind system, also released a number of other results, including the following:

Ninety-four percent of respondents believe that “due to changing economic conditions we need a new system that better guarantees the welfare of the least well off and those facing insecure work conditions.”In addition, 94% […]

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