Category: Basic Income

Growing up in Beijing, roboticist Cong Wang had one skill he just couldn’t master: soccer. His high school’s soccer coach had played the sport professionally, yet he struggled to teach Wang how to kick the ball between the posts or even just to stop the ball with his chest.

“When he was explaining things they were so simple, but when I tried them it was out of my capability, no matter how smart I am,” Wang tells Inverse . “Whatever he taught me, I wouldn’t be able to do it. Because we were physically different. The tricks he was talking […]

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We’re not all socialists yet but we’re getting there. A majority of Democrats are, in any case.

The single-payer numbers in Morning Consult’s new survey not only aren’t surprising, they’re right in line with what other studies have showed this year. For all the liberal screeching about protecting ObamaCare, the Democratic base seems perfectly willing now to move past that program — in theory, when the costs aren’t stressed too heavily. When MC asked people if they “a single payer health care system, where all Americans would get their health insurance from one government plan,” they got a split of […]

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Jesus, some of you guys are just like a bunch of Middlebury students. Why don’t you take some free time and actually read the Charles Murray paper […]

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While Republicans inch toward their latest attempt to roll back the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are having a different debate: whether the party should support a single-payer health care plan.

Some Democratic leaders think single-payer goes further than voters might want, but a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows the proposal is fairly popular — at least in principle.

Nearly half of voters, 49 percent, say they support “a single-payer health care system, where all Americans would get their health insurance from one government plan” — greater than the 35 percent who oppose such a plan. Seventeen percent of voters have no […]

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Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATB) 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 37.13M, 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.

Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATB) Fundamentals That Matter

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Unlike Mark Zuckerberg and various other tech and business moguls, former Vice President Joe Biden rejects the idea of giving Americans free cash handouts, an idea also known as universal basic income.

"There is a better way forward," he argues in a blog post on the University of Delaware’s website .

UBI would guarantee citizens regular payments from the government, regardless of employment status, wealth or age. That could help make up for the loss of jobs to robots, for example, since a study from Oxford University researchers predicts that 47 percent of U.S. jobs could be replaced by automated technology […]

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As someone who writes frequently about universal basic income — the idea of giving everyone enough money to live on, no strings attached — the most common argument I hear against the proposal has nothing to do with its cost, or the potential that it’ll discourage people from working, an attack that former Vice President Joe Biden used this week .

The most common criticism I hear, rather, is that basic income would cause massive inflation .

This idea has some intuitive plausibility to it. Imagine the government printed and handed out $1 billion for each person in the country . […]

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Councillor David Ross warned the basic income would not be introduced overnight, but that plans are progressing. Fife Council has taken the first step toward piloting a universal basic income in the region.

Councillors have agreed to the development of a business plan which would explore how such a radical scheme would work, who it would target and how it would benefit them.

If agreed, everyone in the pilot area would be given an unconditional, minimum payment to meet basic needs.It would be paid to individuals, including children, rather than households and would replace the current welfare system.It has not yet […]

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