Category: Basic Income

This article was written by Marcia Gibson, an investigative scientist at the University of Glasgow. It was republished from The Conversation .

The idea of giving everybody an unconditional, regular income has become increasingly popular in the last few years, partly because employment has become less secure and people fear that increasing automation may cause job losses across many sectors.

There are many arguments for and against basic income. Some are concerned with fairness and justice, but many are based on competing ideas about the potential effects.Some argue people would stop working and become dependent on payments, while others believe […]

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There are three designed, costed and funded opFons in the report. We did not try to design an ideal but rather to show governments they have opFons. OpFon 1 is for 18-64 year olds and OpFon 2 includes seniors. Both are based on the same kind of model of current income guarantees for seniors and children where benefits gradually reduce as other income increases. OpFon 3 is the full, individualized Universal Basic Income (UBI) where the same amount goes to everyone.

A=er CERB was introduced and the pandemic was raging, BICN made a decision to declare a preferred opFon for […]

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For South Korean experiment in rural basic income to be successful, focus must be on policy effectiveness In this picture from 2015, residents of a village in Icheon, in Gyeonggi Province, are seen planting rice seedlings in a greenhouse. The province has gained considerable attention for its plan to launch a trial program for rural basic income in the second half of 2021. (Lee Jong-keun/The Hankyoreh) As Gyeonggi Province gears up to run an experiment in rural basic income in the second half of the year, a debate about the various issues and challenges facing the program was held […]

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A $1 increase in the minimum wage was connected to a 5% decrease in the risk of food insecurity. (Kevin Yarr/CBC) There are some things a province can do to make a significant impact on food insecurity and other things it shouldn’t worry too much about, according to a new study published in the journal Preventive Medicine .

The study looked at Statistics Canada data from 2005 to 2018 on food insecurity, and related that to economic factors and changes in provincial policies across the country, focusing on four factors in particular. Minimum wage.

Welfare income. Income tax rates for […]

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The phrase “defund the police” has become a rallying cry in the wake of last summer’s uprising for racial justice and a radical reimagining of policing and public safety. While the concept has been on the minds of racial justice advocates since at least 2016, it has raised some concerns and confusion for those less familiar with the movement.

“Won’t taking funds away from the police make communities more dangerous?” people frequently ask me in discussions about the topic. “Aren’t police vital to maintain order and keep communities safe?”

I tell them they are missing the bigger picture. Throughout California, local […]

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Government officials held internal discussions regarding temporary income support of around Rs 5,000-6,000 per month for the urban and rural poor who had lost their livelihoods in the nationwide lockdown last year, according to Pronab Sen, head of a standing committee to overhaul India’s economic statistics and data collection.

Representational picture The government held discussions to consider providing a minimum income support programme designed to help India’s poorest households who bore the brunt of the pandemic, said a top official.

These discussions held last year concerned a temporary income support of around Rs 5,000-6,000 per month for the urban and […]

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WhatsApp Image 2021-06-11 at 11.21.26 Youth Day has now officially passed but that certainly does not mean issues concerning young people are a thing of the past. Instead, there should be a greater focus on young people and the issues they are facing. That’s why the #BeTheDrivingForce series with Youth Capital and The Daily Vox is only just getting started. We have plenty more conversations coming up and the special surprise to end off the series.

To mark June 16, the series had a double feature. In the morning, we hosted a Facebook Live with a focus on the […]

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Tito Mboweni Photographer: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni told an investment conference the Treasury won’t back down on its insistence that any wage agreement for state workers mustn’t breach the government’s fiscal ceiling.

Mboweni made the comments at a conference organized by JSE Ltd. and sponsored by Citibank and Absa Group Ltd. that’s closed to the media, a person attending the event told Bloomberg, asking not to be identified.

Mboweni angered powerful labor unions allied to the ruling African National Congress last year by reneging on a prior deal to raise wages for 1.3 million government workers. […]

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