Category: Basic Income

Universal Basic Income, the idea that every citizen be granted a regular unconditional base wage, is rapidly pushing itself into mainstream politics. It’s high time we take it seriously.

While the Greens have been advocating UBI for years , earlier this month Luke Whitington, the deputy chair of NSW Labor’s Economic Policy Committee, proposed investigating a nationwide program.

A multitude of recent articles , research papers and government reports have started looking seriously into UBI’s feasibility in Australia. Some proposals suggest paying out between $10,000 and $30,000 per citizen per year, which is no small thing. And it doesn’t look like […]

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poverty in india This year’s Economic Survey talked about rolling out a Universal Basic Income (UBI).That is a radical idea for tackling poverty. The Survey says that the scheme would nearly wipe out poverty although there are “considerable implementation challenges”. The report calls for pilot trials before rolling out UBI nationally. The idea behind universal basic income is simple: a regular state payment to all citizens, regardless of working status.

According to the chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian, UBI would promote social justice, and empower the country’s poor. He estimates that the scheme would reduce nationwide poverty to 0.5%, and […]

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Written by: Michael A Lewis

As someone interested in basic income (BI), I read a fair amount about the topic. I read pieces by supporters and opponents, as well as those who might be considered more neutral. I’m often struck by the degree of uncertainty concerning implementation of BI.

A popular argument for BI these days is based on concerns about the possibility of mass technological unemployment. Some in the “tech industry” contend that BI will become necessary as automation replaces more and more human laborers in the years to come. This has led to a debate among economists and others […]

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Molly Campbell

SIMCOE – Hunger is a serious problem in Haldimand and Norfolk, but it is not as bad as recent reports have suggested.

In late 2015, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) issued a report stating that Haldimand and Norfolk topped a list of 36 municipalities in the province in the area of food insecurity.Based on data collected from 2011 through 2013, CCO said 16.3 percent of the counties’ residents suffered from poor diets and chronic hunger.The Haldimand-Norfolk health unit has since learned that CCO’s calculations were erroneous. The more accurate number, dietician Molly Campbell reported to Norfolk council this […]

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Note: this article assumes that you are already up-to-speed on what CapGlobalCarbon is. See here to get a quick overview, or here for a short video explainer of Cap and Share, the main component of CGC.

On Wednesday, the process of Britain leaving the EU began. Many in the UK believe that the EU was disempowering to ordinary Britons. Many others feel that it created far more opportunities than it denied. People in different parts of Britain have different, but equally strong, attitudes to Brexit, and the country may fragment as a result.

Brexit is happening in the context of […]

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Labour mayoral candidate Siôn Simon committed to all of West Midlands Citizens’ priorities whilst Tory candidate Andy Street committed only to half. News Editor Joseph Timan reports

West Midlands Citizens, supported by Citizens UK in Birmingham, hosted a Mayoral Assembly at the University of Birmingham’s Great Hall on Wednesday 29th March, inviting the two candidates that they deemed to be the front runners in the upcoming election.

During the event, which was attended by almost 1,000 people, the organisation set out three key priorities under the title of ‘Our Families Better Off’. These priorities were: paying and promoting the Living […]

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Universal basic income (UBI) is gaining momentum world- wide. Switzerland held a referendum on the introduction of a nationwide UBI (which it rejected) in 2016,1 Finland

1 See Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft: Volksinitiative für ein bedin- gungsloses Grundeinkommen, https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/ dokumentation/abstimmungen/20160605/fur-ein-bedingungsloses- Grundeinkommen.html. 77% of the voters rejected the proposal. Most of them missed the clear indication of the level of the UBI and of clari- fi cations of the fi nancing. The intellectual motors of the UBI movement in Switzerland were Häni and Kovce; see D. H ä n i , P. K o v c e : Was […]

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Ontario is set to introduce a universal income program targeting adults between the ages of 18 and 65 in the coming spring. It will be $1320 CAD a month for a single person and potentially more for those with disabilities. It is one among several minimum income programs that are being discussed around the world in countries such as Finland and India. While the idea of a universal income is old, it has gained a lot of recent attention as a possible efficient solution to addressing poverty and increasing employment.

While a proposal for basic income was recently shot down […]

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