Category: Basic Income

Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS This is one of four interviews with the NDP leadership candidates, conducted over a two-month period. Voting has already opened for party members, and results of the first round will be announced on Oct. 1. The final results, and the party’s new leader, will be announced on Oct. 15. Read all our interviews here .

In your opinion, what went wrong in 2015?

A few things. The first is that we asked the wrong question. The question that we basically asked Canadians is, "Do you want to get rid of Harper?" Canadians […]

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Diana Containerships Inc. (NASDAQ:DCIX) seems to be forming a pattern of major movements, providing only some crumbs of outlook for market participants trying to figure out its next move. Now trading with a market value of 0.47M, 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.

Diana Containerships Inc. (NASDAQ:DCIX) Fundamentals That Matter

It’s generally a good idea to start with the most […]

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CPI Card Group Inc. (NASDAQ:PMTS) seems to be forming a pattern of major movements, providing only some crumbs of outlook for market participants trying to figure out its next move. Now trading with a market value of 67.88M, the company has a mix of catalysts and obstacles that spring from the nature of its operations. As the day-to-day narrative ebbs and flows for this company, it is more important than ever to step back and get a bird’s eye view of the fundamental reality under the surface of this story.

CPI Card Group Inc. (NASDAQ:PMTS) Fundamentals That Matter

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Change agent: Kaila Colbin, an ambassador for Singular University think tank. A messenger from another planet was spreading the gospel of change in Newcastle two weeks ago.

Her name: Kaila Colbin.

Her message: prepare yourself for great technological change.Colbin is an ambassador for Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank and business incubator that aims to educate people about technology change in society.Singularity University has planned its first Australian Summit for February 2018 in Sydney, with several speakers covering topics on technology and change.Colbin, who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, curated the organisation’s first summit in New Zealand.Among her chief interests […]

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Among the many lamentations after last November’s presidential election result was the possibility for a “Trump of the left” to emerge as a national political figure.

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the perfect such candidate, though he has denied he has any plans to run.

Unlike Trump, he is young, hip, has that west coast Silicon Valley panache, and is in tune with today’s politically correct sensibilities.Zuckerberg is smart, articulate, and good-looking. He has a young family, with a wife of Asian descent. This modern capitalist billionaire power couple openly intend to give nearly all their wealth to charitable […]

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Bitcoin Community,

We are so excited to announce the ICO for a project we’ve been working on and are looking forward to any feedback you might have.

Primary Info Website: http://www.customizablebasicincome.com ICO Details: http://www.customizablebasicincome.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/cbiproject Explainer Video: https://youtu.be/ai3VgSKInEA Whitepaper: http://www.customizablebasicincome.com/CBI%20Whitepaper%20(Final).pdf Bounty Thread: Here Quick OverviewToday, social initiatives are highly inefficient to run. It is often the case that a minority of funds used to implement a welfare or relief campaign actually end up serving the intended recipients. In addition to being inefficient, this can create a host of value alignment problems. CBI aims to solve […]

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The Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, which has published a series of reports on the feasibility and implementation of basic income, commissioned a recently published survey on attitudes towards basic income in the UK.

The survey was conducted by the British market research organization Ipsos MORI, who interviewed a sample 1,111 individuals from the UK population aged 18 to 75. Interviews were conducted online in August 2017. In the recently published results, the survey data are weighted to represent the general UK population according to age, gender, region, employment status, social grade , and educational […]

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Establishing a universal basic income (UBI) in the U.S. might seem like a liberal pipe dream, particularly given the current state of the nation’s political discourse, but here’s the thing: Seattle had a UBI during one of the most divisive periods of the country’s recent history — and with Richard Nixon in the White House.

For the uninitiated, the idea behind UBIs is that governments pay a flat sum of money to individuals that allows them to meet their basic needs. In theory, this would allow low-income workers to get out of full-time jobs that don’t pay a living […]

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