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Basic income

Heather Marion Smith is weighing in on the Universal Basic Income debate, being touted as a need for people who can’t find a job.

The basis for this argument is that the robots are taking all the jobs.My take is that the world is rapidly heading towards universal affluence. Affluence means a decreasing human population, so robots will be extremely necessary to maintain our standard of living.The other problem with the Universal Basic Income is that the human condition is complex, if we are relieved of a duty we don’t perform it. Which means if you are gifted […]

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Kat wrote on Jan 19 th , 2017 at 6:20pm:
Unforgiven wrote on Jan 19 th , 2017 at 5:54pm:

It IS a right, like it or not. Bullsh1t!Just because some pollie said something a few lifetime ago, does not make it a right; it is something that was said once, nothing more.We have no rights, we have obligations and privileges, welfare is but one of them. As greece found out, when there is no money the big bucket of ‘free’ welfare comes to a screaming halt.Learn to live without someone else supporting you; you will be a […]

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The province continues to investigate the possibility of a Basic Income Pilot project for three communities in the Ontario.

Right now they are gathering information through many means including last week’s information session in Smiths Falls.

Peter McKenna Executive Director of the Rideau Community Health Services tells Lake 88 the overall process will take time to ensure its implemented properly.He also says if it proves to be an effective program he’d like to see it spread beyond the initial communities, and he understands why some people would like to see it rolled out province-wide right away. “I’ve talked to people who […]

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THUNDER BAY – LIVING – Community members, injured workers, social assistance recipients and front-line social service agency workers are calling on the Province to make an immediate billion dollar investment to raise the rates for the 1 in 15 people surviving on social assistance in Ontario.This call has been made at consultations on a Basic Income pilot project in Sudbury, Hamilton and Toronto.

As the province contemplates implementing a basic income, where individuals would be guaranteed a minimum yearly income to address systemic poverty, social assistance recipients and their allies have been rightly pointing out that they cannot wait years […]

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A Parliamentary session on universal basic income (commonly known in the UK as “citizen’s income”) was held at the University of Birmingham on January 12, 2017.

This session had the status of an “inquiry”, a formal call for information on the topic of citizen’s income, in the form of an oral evidence session to the Work and Pensions Committee of the UK Parliament.

While this is not the first time in recent history that citizen’s income has been discussed in the UK Parliament (in September 2016, MPs debated the topic in the House of Commons), it is the first event […]

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Protesters gathered outside of Ontario Housing Minister Chris Ballard’s Basic Income Guarantee consultation on Thursday evening, demanding the province bypass its proposed pilot project that wouldn’t be complete before the 2018 election.

0 Fifty demonstrators called on the province to dispense with its two to three-year pilot trial for the proposed Basic Income Guarantee program and begin ensuring all Ontarians have access to a living wage immediately. THUNDER BAY — Most of the 50 people demonstrating outside of Ontario’s Basic Income Guarantee consultation on Thursday evening weren’t protesting the proposed policy.

They want a minimum income instated now.Thunder Bay Coalition […]

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One of the biggest countries in the world is coming closer to implementing one of today’s buzziest ideas in economics: Universal basic income. Or at least a version of it.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, which is being held this week in Davos, Switzerland , Amitabh Kant, an Indian economic official, said the country is seriously considering a plan in which the government would hand out free money to about 20 million Indian citizens.

The Indian government is reportedly close to releasing a formal report on the new basic universal income proposal, which follows India’s small 2011 trial of universal […]

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Social Security in India – Basic Income Scheme or NREGA? The bulk of workers in Ind… Bodhi Booster, Bodhi Saar, Knowledge portal, Government schemes, MNREGA, Basic Income Scheme, social security in India Social Security in India – Basic Income Scheme or NREGA?

The bulk of workers in India fall into the informal sector. With no pensions or other benefits, their jobs are not only vulnerable, they are precarious. Post-demonetisation, the expectations of people about an “ India of their dreams ” as promised by the PM in November 2016, are high. It is expected that the government will launch […]

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longweekend58 BigOl64 wrote Today at 1:24pm:

Unforgiven wrote Yesterday at 5:54pm:

It IS a right, like it or not. Bullsh1t!Just because some pollie said something a few lifetime ago, does not make it a right; it is something that was said once, nothing more.We have no rights, we have obligations and privileges, welfare is but one of them. As greece found out, when there is no money the big bucket of ‘free’ welfare comes to a screaming halt.Learn to live without someone else supporting you; you will be a lot happier.Well said. And Menzies was referring to an […]

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