Category: Basic Income

The seven candidates to be Socialist-backed presidential candidate before the debate Reuters/Philippe Wojazer

A rebel Socialist’s call for a universal basic income dominated the first of three debate’s between the seven would-be centre-left candidates for France’s presidential election this year.

Rebel Socialist Benoît Hamon, who resigned as education minister in protest at what he saw as the government’s rightward drift, has made the basic income proposal his key policy and Jean-Luc Bennahmias, the leader of the small Democratic and Ecologist Union, also backs the call.And the question provided the only real controversy in the first of three televised debates ahead of […]

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Imagine entering a website for your country which after answering a few questions would inform you how much money you would receive from a basic income. This is net of any increased taxes from each of the financing models proposed to finance the UBI. This site will also tell you how the country would be affected overall. Each of the variables are listed and are changeable, which gives those interested the ability to measure results from all possible outcomes.

We have this now in a spreadsheet form , and it has been forwarded to all the members of the international […]

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In a first, the restive Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) plans to provide a basic income to all its citizens living below the poverty line (BPL). This is the first instance in India of a state committing to a universal basic income (UBI) policy.

In his state budget presentation on Jan. 11 , J&K’s finance minister Haseeb Drabu announced that the state will use direct benefit transfers, wherein the government puts money directly into citizens’ bank accounts, to implement this scheme. “I want to leave the seeds of a thought on how to transition from running social welfare […]

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The Finance Minister of the northern Indian state Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has endorsed what he calls a “universal basic income” — which would entail the replacement of existing subsidies with direct cash transfers — for all residents currently in poverty. Haseeb A Drabu, CC BY-ND 2.0 worldsteel

Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu presented the J&K state budget in a speech on Wednesday, January 11. The budget proposals included what was called “universal basic income”, though Drabu also stated that this universal basic income would be distributed only to those living below the poverty line.

As the economist Himanshu (Jawaharlal Nehru […]

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The European parliament has urged the drafting of a set of regulations to govern the use and creation of robots and artificial intelligence, including a form of “electronic personhood” to ensure rights and responsibilities for the most capable AI.

In a 17-2 vote, with two abstentions, the parliament’s legal affairs committee passed the report , which outlines one possible framework for regulation.

“A growing number of areas of our daily lives are increasingly affected by robotics,” said the report’s author, Luxembourgish MEP Mady Delvaux. “In order to address this reality and to ensure that robots are and will remain in the […]

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Last year, Ontario’s Liberal government announced a series of basic income pilot projects. The projects would test a $1,320 per month basic income for unemployed residents of select towns in the province.

Smith’s Falls, a small city near Ottawa, has voted not to participate.

Despite support from the city’s mayor, council voted 3-2 against implementing a basic income for its residents. Smith’s Falls is still reeling from the closure of a Hershey’s plant and Stanley Tools, which together employed almost a thousand people. “I have to believe they didn’t understand what they were voting down,” said one resident . “This can […]

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Finland’s basic income experiment is now underway, with the first payments having been mailed this week. With the experiment generating much media attention, h ere is a review of some of the basics.

On January 1, 2017, Finland launched an experiment in which 2,000 individuals –randomly selected from a pool of unemployment benefit recipients–will receive unconditional cash payments of €560 (about 590 USD) per month for two years.

The first payments were sent out on Monday, January 9 .The main goal of the experiment, as it presently stands, is to determine whether unconditional cash transfers are more effective than means-tested […]

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