Category: Basic Income

The Mountain View City Council last week moved forward on major efforts to help the city’s underserved – actions that come as the state’s moratorium on housing evictions expired.

Using $3 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds, the council is giving $1 million to the nonprofit Community Services Agency, which supplies basic needs like food and shelter; $1 million to the Mountain View Solidarity Fund, which helps struggling Latino families; and $1 million to the Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot program.

The moves come as a sizable number of residents continue to struggle – a situation exacerbated by the […]

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Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who also failed in his bid to become the next mayor of New York City this year, announced Monday that he has broken up with the Democratic Party to join America’s largest voting bloc of independents because politics has become too polarizing.

“I’m confident that no longer being a Democrat is the right thing,” Yang said in a statement on his website Monday . “Please, keep in mind that I am NOT suggesting that you also change your voter registration to Independent, as I have done. Doing so could disenfranchise you if you […]

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Submitted by Carolynn Coburn,
Concerned Citizens of Haliburton County

On Tuesday, Sept. 21, Concerned Citizens of Haliburton
County held a Basic Income Event beside the Rails End Gallery in Haliburton to celebrate the 14th International Basic Income Week.People passed by on their way to the Farmers Market. More than three dozen people stopped to chat, and almost all of them responded to our invitation to complete this sentence: To be happy and healthy every person needs …The invitation was intentionally open-ended, recognizing that not everyone would be thinking about Basic Income. We asked people to write their answers on cards. […]

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‘Serious questions’ about public spending on Galway Capital of Culture

The projected level of funding for Galway 2020, particularly from private-sector sources, ‘did not materialise’ and ticket sales were severely impacted by the pandemic. A report on Galway’s term as European Capital of Culture will be completed by the end of the year amid concerns about overspending of public money, Arts Minister Catherine Martin has said.

However, Ms Martin did not commit to a full departmental review of the cultural programme, which was singled out for scrutiny in last week’s Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) report.Independent TD for Galway […]

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Last week, Colombia’s center-left presidential candidate Alejandro Gaviria promised that if Colombians elected him as president next year, he would pass a nationwide basic income for those under 30 years. However, far from being something easy to achieve, the truth is that such a measure will be so difficult to execute that it’s almost impossible it could happen. Populism.

Despite the legislative branch will probably shut down Alejandro Gaviria’s proposal, it is an undeniable fact this is nothing more than a populist promise in order to get as many votes as possible. Especially in a moment when the […]

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The Denver Basic Income Project was supposed to officially roll out this fall, but internal conflict has delayed the project’s efforts. — Britt Chester It’s not easy giving away a small fortune.

Thanks to savvy investments, Mark Donovan’s wealth soared during the pandemic, but his recognition of the widening gap between the wealthy and the poor also grew. He wanted to channel his privilege into public service, and so began researching options.

“I was seeing people losing their main sources of income and their stability and housing in many cases, and I was watching my investment in Tesla grow by six […]

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Sassa collection in alexandra – Photo Delwyn Verasamy Few questionable economic analyses and disproven solutions to South Africa’s economic and socioeconomic problems deserve responses. However, when the writer is an experienced business leader of Colin Coleman’s calibre, with a history of leading business at the heart of South Africa’s economy, a response backed by facts and objective realities of the country’s economic problems is warranted.

I respond to Coleman’s remarks at the National Investment Dialogue , in which I participated, and his Sunday Times column of 3 October, titled “SA doesn’t have a debt problem. It has a growth problem […]

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