Category: Basic Income

Mayor Andy Letham Mayor of the City of Kawartha Lakes, Andy Letham, says he gives kudos to the Province of Ontario for testing a basic income here.

“I think it’s great,” says Letham. “This community will certainly benefit.”

Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that Hamilton/Brant County, Thunder Bay, and Lindsay are the selected communities for the Province’s basic income guarantee project. The three-year study will test how a basic income might expand opportunities and job prospects for those living on low incomes, while providing greater security for them and their families.Lindsay will be critical to the study. Out of the 4,000 participants, […]

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With trials for self-driving commercial lorries to take place in the UK within the next twelve months, the work days of thousands of Britain’s long-haul drivers may soon be numbered.

Of course, these are only preliminary tests – it may well be a decade or more before driverless deliveries and long-distance haulage are an everyday reality. However, with the beginnings already upon us, a boom in automated jobs is surely coming sooner rather than later.

Driverless haulage lorries are just the latest in a range of technological upgrades to manual jobs. From driverless taxis , and Amazon’s long-awaited drone deliveries, to […]

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Boston What Would Democratic Countries Worlds Largest World’s Largest Democratic Country to Endorse Universal Basic Income The benefits of financial security are obvious and well documented, so why doesn’t the idea of UBI enjoy more popular support? If we took all of the income the United States makes in a year and… Economics Politics Andy Stern, former head of the SEIU, makes the case for a universal payment to end povertyand offers a strategy for how we get there. See more Stephen Colbert Quotes Neil Patrick Harris Funny Stuff Funny Pics Funny Things Random Stuff Wisdom Politics Bears "But […]

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Thebrah posted… young_flip posted…

Giving people the reason to educate themselves, the freedom to lounge around and consider the goings-on of the world, and guaranteed money/power to wield, makes them easier to control than simply working them 40-80 hours per week while they manage families?

That’s an interesting take Consider the conditions used to approve remittance. Thebrah posted… young_flip posted…Giving people the reason to educate themselves, the freedom to lounge around and consider the goings-on of the world, and guaranteed money/power to wield, makes them easier to control than simply working them 40-80 hours per week while they manage families?That’s an […]

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Press Release – New Zealand Fabian Society

Guy Standing – Basic Income: the case for a significant new policy

In conjunction with Basic Income New Zealand and Auckland Debating Society, we present Guy Standing, leading international speaker on Basic Income, author of The Precariat , with as a panel to respond to his presentation, Sue Bradford and Keith Rankin.Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He has held chairs at the Universities of Bath […]

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Election candidates faced off over student welfare and Maori language and culture at the Toi Ohomai debate. Rotorua’s prospective MPs got their first chance to make a public pitch for votes as they faced off at a debate organised by the Toi Ohomai​ Institute of Technology on Thursday.

Rotorua MP Todd McClay joined NZ First Rotorua List MP Fletcher Tabuteau​ and candidates’ Ben Sandford (Labour), Richard Gillies (Green Party), Wendy Biddle (Maori Party) plus Waiariki candidate Tamati Coffey (Labour).

The Opportunities Party (TOP) was represented by East Coast candidate Lesley Immink​ while Maori Party Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell sent his […]

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Press Release: New Zealand Fabian Society

Guy Standing – Basic Income: the case for a significant new policy

In conjunction with Basic Income New Zealand and Auckland Debating Society, we present Guy Standing, leading international speaker on Basic Income, author of The Precariat , with as a panel to respond to his presentation, Sue Bradford and Keith Rankin.Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He has held chairs at the Universities of Bath […]

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Scotland looks set to be the first part of the UK to pilot a basic income for every citizen, as councils in Fife and Glasgow investigate trial schemes in 2017. The councillor Matt Kerr has been championing the idea through the ornate halls of Glasgow City Chambers, and is frank about the challenges it poses.

“Like a lot of people, I was interested in the idea but never completely convinced,” he said. But working as Labour’s anti-poverty lead on the council, Kerr says that he “kept coming back to the basic income”.

Kerr sees the basic income as a way of […]

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"This method of dealing with thieves [hanging] is both unjust and socially undesirable. As a punishment it’s too severe, and as a deterrent it’s quite ineffective. No penalty on earth will stop people from stealing, if it’s their only way of getting food. Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse" – Sir Thomas More (English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist)

Prisoners receive food, clothing, and […]

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