Category: Basic Income

"Mort Pour Rien" is French for "Black Lives Matter"–even if they’re trying to murder a gendarme. For some time, I’ve argued a Basic Income policy is all but inevitable as automation continues and an increasing share of the population becomes not just unemployed, but unemployable. Of course, as with every other major policy area from health care to education, immigration is the most important aspect of all this because no state can provide a subsidy for nothing to the entire world’s population without suffering complete social collapse. Still, the political movements which can come to terms with and think […]

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Despite all the uncertainty of global politics and economics, a citizen’s income could help us Glaswegians regain some control in 2017.

In many ways 2016 was a bad year for progressives. Welfare cuts, unfair work conditions and food banks remained; attitudes hardened towards refugees and immigrants; and right wing populists won the vote over Brexit and the White House. But, behind all of this, 2016 was also a year in which those wanting a more economically just, open and equal world also made their mark.

In Glasgow, local people met in community halls to plan local currencies, held protests to force […]

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I was listening to EconTalk the other day and Mike Munger from Duke University was on talking about Universal Basic Income. I happen to believe that UBI will become a necessity in the very near future, so it’s a subject of interest to me. That said, I don’t often hear any new ideas about it; it’s mostly a conversation about how much to give and how to pay for it.

That is, until Munger reframed the issue for me. I have to admit that I’ve never thought about it in these terms, but I happen to think he’s right.

We already […]

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“Money for nothing” is not just a song from 1985 by Dire Straits but also, it seems, a new wave of policies supporting the government providing an income for citizens, regardless of their economic activity.

Across the world, experiments in universal basic income explore the option of paying individuals a flat rate of income, unaffected by their participation in the labour market. It sounds counter-intuitive.

The first expectation may be that recipients would just stay at home and watch daytime television. But a closer look at how economies have changed over recent decades shows how the case for such policies emerged. […]

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Original newz story – Click here EU states should guarantee minimum income for citizens … The European Commission wants all EU member states to introduce minimum wages and incomes for their workers and unemployed, the head of the EU executive president said on Monday, in an effort to combat growing social inequality and poverty. The Commission, which has limited powers in the area of social policy, is preparing an overhaul of the EU’s functions and targets and wants it to include tackling social and economic injustices that have often been successfully exploited by right-wing eurosceptic parties across the 28-nation […]

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THOMAS Colson of Business Insider reports that the Indian government is set to endorse universal basic income. Professor Guy Standing, co-founder of Basic Income Earth Network or BIEN (which is Spanish for “good”) says “the Indian government finds the idea feasible and the best way forward.”

The idea is simple: a regular state payment made to all citizens regardless of age and working and civil status. It provides a safety net for all citizens by putting a little money in their pockets while doing away with useless bureaucracies and social agencies dispensing social aid selectively, pocketing a lot of it […]

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What is work? Clare Ozich, Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (and co-editor of the Green Agenda), considers how a universal basic income (UBI) policy could change how we evaluate the meaning of work in our society in her essay ‘The emancipatory potential of a Universal Basic Income’.

Advocates of UBI believe by setting a standard of living through a yearly income for everyone-it would create a floor no one would fall beneath, eliminating poverty. How we implement it successfully is still being tested in countries around the world. (Studies are currently being planned or done in […]

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“Even if we could afford GAI programs they aren’t a panacea,” commented Hicks.

January 24, 2017 – Providing a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all guaranteed annual income (GAI) is not the best solution to fighting poverty in Canada, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Toward a New Balance in Social Policy: The Future Role of Guaranteed Annual Income within the Safety Net,” author Peter Hicks urges policymakers to address poverty by using a “bottom-up” approach and developing a new generation of social programs.

The author notes that, due to failed prior attempts to combat poverty, there has been a […]

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EU states should guarantee minimum income for citizens … The European Commission wants all EU member states to introduce minimum wages and incomes for their workers and unemployed, the head of the EU executive president said on Monday, in an effort to combat growing social inequality and poverty. The Commission, which has limited powers in the area of social policy, is preparing an overhaul of the EU’s functions and targets and wants it to include tackling social and economic injustices that have often been successfully exploited by right-wing eurosceptic parties across the 28-nation bloc. – Reuters The European Union […]

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