Category: Basic Income

Lack of logic — and dignity

Lack of logic — and dignity

Lee Hyun-sang

The author is a columnist of the JoongAng Ilbo.

Basic income has become the sole contested policy in a presidential race already stained with negative campaigning. At the center is Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung. He vows to hand out 1 million won ($868) to every citizen within his five-year term starting with 250,000 won from 2023 if he wins the election on March 9, 2022. Lee also promises a separate allowance for young people. To fund this, 20 trillion won is needed in 2023 alone and up to 57 trillion won annually in later years.Whether Korea […]

Five key reasons why basic income support for poor South Africans makes sense

Five key reasons why basic income support for poor South Africans makes sense

Marie Coetzee and her husband Fanie Coetzee live in the poverty stricken shanty town community of Munsieville, west of Johannesburg. EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook Five key reasons why basic income support for poor South Africans makes sense

August 1, 2021 5.13am EDT The basic income grant debate has been rumbling in South Africa for two decades, ever since the grant was recommended by the Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa in 2002.

The reintroduction of the “social relief of distress” grant by President Cyril Ramaphosa, for unemployed people and unpaid caregivers who don’t receive […]

Approve Request for Appropriation Modification No. 134 – $90,000 increasing revenue and expenditures in the Office of the County Executive budget, relating to independent program evaluation and participant financial mentoring for the basic income pilot program. (4/5 Vote)

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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The recommended action will have no net impact on the County’s General Fund. The one-time revenue and expenditure allocation of $90,000 willfurther the program in accordance with the grants.REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONAs part of the Board action to implement the Basic Income Pilot program for Transition-Aged Youth, Administration was directed to seek public private partnerships and private foundation funding. The recommended action will allow the Office of the County Executive to accept $90,000 from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Tipping Point. $54,000 will be allocated to the independent program evaluation. This will enhance the County’s $36,000 allocation […]

A Basic Income Grant is a big deal?

A Basic Income Grant is a big deal?

NELSON Mandela’s South African dream, which was driven by democratic values and constitutionalism and anchored on the rainbow nation chronicle, is being challenged by our socio-economic landscape.

In Mandela’s words: “As long as many of our people still live-in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.”

In the past few weeks, the South African democratic order was, at face value, challenged in a way that was never seen before. The government was in turmoil […]

Holness launches $800 million Social Pension Programme

Holness launches $800 million Social Pension Programme

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, on Friday officially launched the Government’s $800 million Social Pension Programme, which provides a guaranteed income for vulnerable persons 75 years and older.

Seniors targeted are those not currently in receipt of a pension, disability benefit or other retirement benefits, cash grants from the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), or Poor Relief Programme, and who do not reside in a government institutional care facility.

Holness said the programme, which is the first of its kind in Jamaica, is a landmark achievement in the development of the nation’s social protection framework for the most […]

Yes, we can afford a universal basic income guarantee

Yes, we can afford a universal basic income guarantee

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reinstatement of the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant and its extension to caregivers brings us one step closer to a universal basic income guarantee.

The Covid-19 pandemic has put the idea of ​​a universal basic income guarantee (UBIG) back on the agenda, as evidenced by the many civil society groups and community organizers . This recognizes, in the context of a long-standing structural unemployment crisis, that poverty and inequality cannot be tackled only by expanding employment.

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Yes, we can afford to guarantee basic income

Yes, we can afford to guarantee basic income

The resurgence of the Covid-19 Social Pain Relief Grant by President Cyril Ramaphosa and its expansion into caregivers bring us one step closer to guaranteeing basic income.

The Covid-19 pandemic has returned the idea of ​​Basic Income Guarantee (UBIG) to the agenda. this is, Civil Society Group and Community Organizer .. It recognizes that in the context of the long-standing structural unemployment crisis, poverty and inequality cannot only be addressed by expanding employment.

However, the monthly R350 SRD grant can cover at most 60% of a person’s minimum food intake. In the short term, SRD grants should be increased to at […]

A Basic Income Grant is a big deal?

A Basic Income Grant is a big deal?

South African money. File photo: Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA) NELSON Mandela’s South African dream, which was driven by democratic values and constitutionalism and anchored on the rainbow nation chronicle, is being challenged by our socio-economic landscape.

In Mandela’s words: “As long as many of our people still live-in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.”

In the past few weeks, the South African democratic order was, at face value, challenged in a way […]

PM says NIDS will help identify elderly in need

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says the proposed national identification system (NIDS) will help to identify the nation’s elderly population who should benefit from the social pension programme.

“The NIDS will be the basis on which programmes like this will work by ensuring that the benefit gets to the identified beneficiary. It [NIDS] is on its way and we will be able to identify and track all our seniors and provide them with this social safety net guaranteed income benefit,” Holness told the virtual launch of the social pension programme yesterday.

NIDS, which is still before Parliament, will help with the […]

Blinken’s Visit to India; The Economy and the Pandemic; Challenging the Dem Establishment

Blinken’s Visit to India; The Economy and the Pandemic; Challenging the Dem Establishment

Millions lifted out of poverty through economic pandemic assistance. What the future holds for working people after these programs end.

Vijay Prashad , historian, journalist and executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, talks to us about Secretary Blinken’s recent visit to India, how despite the Biden administration’s focus on human rights and democracy abroad, India has not received any criticisms over Prime Minister Modi’s dubious track record on this matter, and the $25 million investment in vaccines in India with no mention of a waiver of patents to facilitate production. We also talk about the NSO […]