Category: Basic Income

"Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come? It is an idea that has been around for hundreds of years–to give everyone in society a regular chunk of money that is enough to guarantee them a minimum survivable standard of living. Often called Universal or Unconditional Basic Income, the idea has supporters on both right & left. It was cast back into the spotlight this year when the Swiss held a referendum on whether to introduce it. Pilot schemes to test the idea are cropping up… from Berry Four Leaf Clover 4 Leaf Clover Green Three Leaf Leaf Green Green […]

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Mincome, a Canadian basic income pilot project – It’s human and societal effects

Free Money For Everyone or Basic Citizen’s Income | The World Today #04 A universal income – what it is and how it works – utalk Share your thoughts! We were unable to load Disqus. If you are a […]

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More and more evidence has contradicted my initial opposition to doling out money to Americans

Getting a tire replaced seems easy to me. I’d just go to the nearest tire place and get it fixed. But Jayleene was living from paycheck to paycheck and didn’t have $110 to spare. She couldn’t get to work, and her boss fired her. She couldn’t make her rent and was soon out on the street – all because she needed $110 at the right time.

Jayleene told me her story during my volunteer shift at a soup kitchen. Her experience was the final straw […]

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On November 20, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Joe Kaeser, CEO of the multibillion-dollar engineering company Siemens AG, has demanded a basic income.

According to the news report, Kaeser, speaking at the Süddeutsche Zeitung Economic Summit in Berlin, said that a basic income would eventually be necessary to protect workers who become displaced due to artificial intelligence and automation. Subsequently, many readers credited Kaeser with support for unconditional basic income (bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen), as endorsed by BIEN .

In later remarks, however, Kaeser clarified that he does not demand an unconditional basic income–as the Siemens Press Office tweeted on November 22: Source: […]

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By Graeme McNaughton/The Oshawa Express

The price of food, like just about everything else, has gone up compared to years past. This increase, however, is more of a burden for some than others.

According to the region’s recently released report on food costs, The Price of Eating Well in Durham Region 2016, the cost for a basic healthy diet for a standard family of four comes to $193 per week, or $837 every month, marking a 12-per-cent bump over the prices seen five years ago.These rising food costs are especially hard for those in the region that are food insecure. According […]

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Yale News: Losses of soil carbon under global warming might equal U.S. emissions What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out

Ontario is poised to become a testing ground for basic income in 2017 as part of a pilot program. Hugh Segal is the special advisor to the Canadian province and a former senator. He believes a** supplemental income of $1,320 a month could provide a viable path to poverty abatement**—effectively replacing welfare programs and a system he described as “seriously demeaning” in a paper discussing this basic income pilot project.

Segal suggests […]

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It wouldn’t be the first progressive idea to be taken on by conservatives. A group of Bundestag members in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have proposed offering parents a basic state income – independent of their own financial situation.

The fixed monthly payment, the exact amount of which was not mentioned, would be tied to child care costs and would be subject to social insurance contributions.

The payment, part of what the CDU calls its "family pact," would also be paid out from birth until the child starts school, regardless of whether the parents send their children to kindergartens or other […]

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This is not Phillip Frazer. Photo Patrik Neckman flickr.com/photos/patrikneckman Phillip Frazer

Now that global corporations rule most of the 196 nations on Earth, the world is running out of paid fulltime jobs. An ideal world, ideal for big corps that is, will have fewer employees, with fewer benefits, and no unions.

We’re getting there, and what’s coming toward us like a Mack truck surfing a tsunami is a mass of computerisation, automation, robotisation, and artificial intelligence that will do almost everything better than we stupid persons now do. Oxford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the International Monetary Fund all […]

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