Category: Basic Income

>> >>115662439 (OP)
As a person on disability I’m already on a ‘basic’ income. It sucks balls but I’m alive and not homeless. IF I could work I WOULD work so that I could have more than just food/house/internet.

Everyone shoots it down but I think it could work. Mostly because it would replace 100’s of other government programs. It would replace:
>Minimum Wage>Housing Assistance>(Most of) Disability Assistance>Food Assistance>Social SecurityHUGE amounts of government bureaucracy could be junked. Of course it would only be feasible if stupid / retarded / crazy / drug addicted people who NEVER had a job were prevented […]

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BERKELEY – According to the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley, robots will soon eat everyone’s job, and a universal basic income will become necessary. Lately, tech titans are especially eager to extol the results of a UBI pilot project in Kenya that is being funded largely by Silicon Valley philanthropists.

While the idea of UBI often arises during periods of economic and social stress, this is the first true test of it. The Kenya project provides a guaranteed poverty-ending income for those who receive it. In 40 poor, remote villages, 6,000 adults are now receiving 75 cents (yes, cents ) […]

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Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya said the ministry of statistics and program implementation is working on designing labour-market surveys that would eventually provide reliable estimates of growth in jobs. (Reuters) While some critics are sceptical of the 7% GDP growth reported for Q3 of FY17 when demonetisation had impacted cash-based consumptions and other economic activity, especially in the rural and informal sectors, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya points to “reasonably firm” inflation to argue that there was no sharp dip in demand during the period. In an interview with FE’s Prasanta Sahu and K.G. Narendranath, he says that India […]

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The Citizen has invited the official candidates for the leadership of the federal NDP to explain briefly why they are running. Today: Guy Caron, MP for Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques:

When you’re worried about putting food on the table, it’s hard to think about anything else. Planning for a better future for your family is next to impossible when you’re focused on making rent. That’s why I believe it’s time to introduce a basic income for all Canadians: to ensure that everyone is able enjoy a standard of living worthy of our great country.

A basic income policy is not only the […]

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A UBI is an expensive way to reach the poor, but a new report from India suggests that by cutting out the bureaucratic and political middlemen, it may be cheaper than the status quo.

Last weekend the New York Times Magazine published a feature story by Annie Lowrey looking at GiveDirectly’s UBI experiment in Kenya. Reporting from a Kenyan village where eating in public is considered an ostentatious display of wealth, Lowrey does a good job of conveying just how radical this experiment is. While aid projects have come and gone, suddenly every man, woman, and child will start […]

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NDP MP Guy Caron announced on Feb. 27 that he will run for the leadership of the New Democratic Party. The Citizen has invited the official candidates for the leadership of the federal NDP to explain briefly why they are running. Today: Guy Caron, MP for Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques:

When you’re worried about putting food on the table, it’s hard to think about anything else. Planning for a better future for your family is next to impossible when you’re focused on making rent. That’s why I believe it’s time to introduce a basic income for all Canadians: to ensure that […]

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Income Vote Swiss Universal Swiss Citizens Federal Constitution Project Medium Security Project Economic Security Basic Income Vote 2016 The Swiss Universal Basic Income Vote 2016: What’s Next? – Economic Security Project – Medium See more On Thursday, I too participated in an act of national insanity and voted to leave the European Union. This is how the next 24 hours unfolded for me. I’d checked the polls again in the morning, and Remain was ahead, just as it had been for the majority of the campaign. Sensible people were going to vote in, and I could have my protest […]

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We dwell in implausible . Robots could take our jobs. The Arctic would possibly disappear. A brand new wave of strongmen is pushing again towards what solely yesterday appeared like an unstoppable tide of liberal democracy. As the New York Times lately reported, media references to that menacing line from Yeats — “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” — have spiked to a 30-year excessive.

It’s solely pure, amid all this uncertainty, to solid about for alternate options. Conventional knowledge and experience are at a lifeless finish. Our coverage toolkit appears woefully empty. Into this void steps Rutger Bregman, […]

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