Category: Basic Income

I found an article about that interesting topic (link below) which also says:
The basic income was popularized by the economist Milton Friedman in the 1960s as a "negative income tax" but is picking up steam in several countries — Canada, India and the Netherlands — and in Silicon Valley. The Dutch city of Utrecht is in the process of a pilot project on basic income, and seven other cities in the country have announced their intention to explore the idea, which has been discussed in the Netherlands since the 1970s.

In November, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk […]

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Is there any evidence that redistribution, as in Finland, is less politically sustainable than any other system of reducing inequality ? (the only other successful capitalist system of reducing inequality that I am aware of is Japan’s).

Is there any evidence that any type of political economy is 100% sustainable and stable? If work programs are 100% politically sustainable, then why did Henry Wallace fail in his attempt to make the WPA permanent? Why was the Jefe program defeated?

Was Kalecki wrong about why full employment programs are politically unsustainable?Re:"earnings." What does it mean when we say that someone "earned" something?Nobody […]

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The following table records the glosses on the definition of basic income that appear on the websites of BIEN’s affiliate organizations (entries are current as of January 4, 2017).

N.B. Not all BIEN affiliates are represented in this table, since (at the time it was constructed) some lacked websites or lacked definitions on their websites. EUROPE: Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBI-Europe) “An Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is an income unconditionally granted to all members of a political community on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement.” Source: http://basicincome-europe.org/ubie/unconditional-basic-income/ SOUTHERN AFRICA: Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) – […]

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Ontario MPP, France Gélinas, says a well-designed basic income policy could help women stay home if they want to take care of their aging parents.

Gélinas, an MPP with Ontario’s New Democratic Party (NDP) and a health critic for her party, says women in the 50-65 age bracket often find themselves in the difficult position of placing their mother or father in a long term care home.

“Many women – and let’s be honest, it’s mostly women who would choose this – would love to stay home and take care of their moms and dads,” says Gélinas.“If they had a basic […]

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Enno Schmidt will speak on universal basic income at the Central Hillside Community Center at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Photo courtesy of Enno Schmidt German artist and filmmaker Enno Schmidt’s whirlwind tour of the nation will take him to Duluth Sunday afternoon, where he will once again promote the idea of providing a guaranteed paycheck to every man, woman and child.

Schmidt was one of the primary architects of a Swiss proposal to provide a basic monthly income of 2,500 francs for each adult citizen and 625 francs for every child. While the conversion rate puts the dollar and the Swiss […]

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Finland is often cited as a beacon of so-called progressive politics, and thinking outside the box. In fact, their most famous idea was very much inside the box.

When infant mortality rates were high, the Finns introduced a Baby Box that’s given to all new mums and turns into a cot. Now Finland has one of the lowest rates of infant mortality anywhere in the world.

The Finns also rank near the top of various league tables for life expectancy, education, and income equality. Its people are apparently among the ‘happiest’ in the world.So when the Finnish government decides to try […]

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The Resolution Foundation’s prediction that inequalities are going to grow ( UK faces return to inequality of Thatcher years , 1 February) makes gloomy reading. Sadly it is underestimated because it takes no account of cuts in what Barbara Castle , when she was secretary of state at the Department of Health and Social Security 40 years ago, called “the social wage”. By this she meant “the publicly provided services which mean so much to family healthcare, education, housing and a good environment”. She estimated that in 1975 the social wage added £20 a week to the average working […]

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Renowned French economist Thomas Piketty, best known for his 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century , has been making headlines for his positive comments regarding basic income in a number of blog posts. However, the approach he proposes is not basic income as it is commonly understood.

In a blog post published on 13 December, Basic income or fair wage? , Piketty states that while he’s pleased to see such consensus across the political spectrum on the idea of a minimum income within France, discussions of a basic income and its specific level are not radical enough – […]

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Ontario, Canada

In the 1970s, a basic income experiment took place in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Forty years later, Ontario has expressed interest in following up on that trial with a study of its own.

The government hasn’t yet released many details of the trial yet, which will likely begin in spring 2017, though it has aside roughly $19 million to fund it.Ontario Works, the jobs department of the Ontario government, is asking the public to weigh in via an online survey . The survey includes projected payment amounts, provisions, and general questions about interest in basic income. […]

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