Category: Basic Income

Experimenting Unconditional Basic Income

Experimenting Unconditional Basic Income

Experimenting Unconditional Basic Income What do people do when they’re given cash, no strings attached?

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Joe Huston – Regional Director, Give DirectlyElizabeth Rhodes – Research Director for the Basic Income Project, Y Combinator ResearchGuy Standing – Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Founder and Co-President, Basic Income Earth NetworkIn 2016, the policy proposal for Universal Basic Income grew more favorable in American opinion. Among many others, Andrew Stern, Rob B. Reich and Martin Ford published books advocating for a guaranteed income for all. Poverty, structural unemployment, growing inequalities, automation, and precariousness […]

Europe is considering a genius proposal to fight poverty – and Britons are set to miss out [OPINION]

Europe is considering a genius proposal to fight poverty – and Britons are set to miss out [OPINION]

A proposal for universal basic income (UBI) is finally on the political agenda. If implemented, it will benefit millions of people who are in poverty or struggling to make ends meet. Unless, that is, you’re British. Why? Because of Brexit.

While MEPs urge European countries to consider introducing a basic income to prepare for mass unemployment that could come as a result of the rise of robots , Britons will continue to live in a class-divided country, in which the poor are seen as a burden, to be punished. Workhouse Britain

According to the Office of National Statistics, there […]

Fear of robots stealing 3 million French jobs sees radical plan to tax automation

Fear of robots stealing 3 million French jobs sees radical plan to tax automation

Benoit Hamon has proposed a Universal Basic Income for all French adults to offset the rise of robots and automation in the workplace.

A radical plan has been presented in France which would see an inclusive benefits system introduced to counter the rise of robots in the workplace.

Two of the seven candidates campaigning for the right to represent the Socialist Party in this year’s presidential elections are proposing a basic income of €750 to every French adult. The bill for this radical benefits plan would total a huge €700billion a year.Candidate Benoit Hamon, in the first televised debate for the […]

Will budget announce an income transfer scheme? Govt debating pros and cons, says report

Will budget announce an income transfer scheme? Govt debating pros and cons, says report

Ever since the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes happened, there has been speculation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be looking at ways to fulfill one of his high profile poll promises in 2014 – that once he comes to power he will get hold of the black money and transfer Rs 15 lakh into each Indian’s account. Media reports now say the government is discussing some thing of this sort, but definitely not the Robin Hood style fund transfer.

According to a report in The Economic Times today, the government is considering an income transfer scheme […]

US: Stanford University offers graduate course on Basic Income

US: Stanford University offers graduate course on Basic Income

Juliana Bidadanure , Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, has designed a graduate seminar on the philosophy of basic income, which she is currently teaching for the winter quarter.

According to the official course description , the seminar will address questions such as the following: “[I]s giving people cash no strings attached desirable and just? Would basic income promote a more gender equal society through the remuneration of care-work, or would it risk further entrenching the position of women as caregivers? Would alternative policies be more successful (such as job guarantees, stakeholder grants, or a negative income tax)? […]

The Dangers of a “Universal Basic Income”

The Dangers of a

0 Comments Finland has announced that it is conducting a social policy “experiment” which deserves closer examination. Through 2017 and 2018, Finland will provide a guaranteed basic income of 560 euros to 2,000 randomly selected welfare recipients. This benefit will be subtracted from other, currently existing welfare benefits that participants may be receiving, and, crucially, the payments will continue regardless of any other income that is earned. If a participant of this program finds a job, the government will continue to pay them the 560 euros in addition to any other income.

The Finnish government hopes — and many believe […]

Budget 2017: Narendra Modi govt planning Rs 1,500 allowance for poor, unemployed

Budget 2017: Narendra Modi govt planning Rs 1,500 allowance for poor, unemployed

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Martin Luther King Jr. Was Way Ahead of the Curve on This Radical Economic Idea

Martin Luther King Jr. Was Way Ahead of the Curve on This Radical Economic Idea

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent the last years of his life fighting poverty in America — stressing that racial struggles cannot be separated from economic ones. In his final book, "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" King put forward a radical economic argument, asserting the government should provide all Americans with guaranteed basic income. Martin Luther King Jr. The idea of providing basic income to eliminate poverty spread among economists in the decades after King’s death. It has been re-popularized in recent years as American workers wrestle with income inequality and the rise of technology […]

Council votes to send basic income delegation to ask questions, lobby province

Council votes to send basic income delegation to ask questions, lobby province

Basic income delegation going before province. Smiths Falls Record News

And just when we thought the basic income pilot issue was dead before council — it was resurrected by Mayor Shawn Pankow.

In a surprise amendment put forward by Pankow at council’s special committee of the whole meeting on Jan. 16., the topic of the the provincially-led basic income pilot was allowed to be brought before council for the third time — again for the purpose of requesting council’s approval to send a delegation to lobby the province at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) being held at the end of […]

Martin Luther King Jr. Had Another Dream: A Universal Basic Income for All Americans

Martin Luther King Jr. Had Another Dream: A Universal Basic Income for All Americans

The editorial board at The Washington Post rankled some on Sunday night when they published a short essay making the questionable assertion that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a “conservative.” However, in the last year of his life, Dr. King advocated for the very “non-conservative” prospect of a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.

From Quartz : In 1967, the year before he was assassinated, King published a book titled, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? In it, King held up a basic income as a solution to the poverty that afflicted people of all races in […]