Category: Basic Income

Activists deliver thousands of ‘past-due’ invoices to Sen. Marco Rubio’s Orlando office staffers Ten thousand "past due invoices" for COVID relief were delivered to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s office in downtown Orlando early Thursday afternoon.

These invoices represented constituents across the nation who signed a Change.org petition — also included in the boxes delivered to Rubio’s office — for reoccurring $2,000 payments from Congress for pandemic-related economic relief. This petition surpassed 2 million signatures earlier this week.

The invoices were delivered by Erica Wright, a member of Income Movement , a nationwide grassroots organization that advocates for a universal basic income."[The […]

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More effective: Chung calls for taxpayer funds to be targeted at those who have suffered the most economic damage from the pandemic through stimulus checks or a ‘loss-compensation’ plan. — Bloomberg SEOUL: South Korea’s prime minister warned that universal basic income was “impossible” to implement, drawing a sharp contrast with other populist contenders for the presidency ahead of an election next year.

In an interview with Bloomberg News, Chung Sye-kyun said “politics based on populism” is “bound to fail.” The idea of across-the-board income support to address inequality has been backed by others in President Moon Jae-in’s progressive camp aiming […]

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Senator Mitt Romney has long been known for his interest in giving parents money for parenting, and his new plan , titled the Family Security Act, which dropped on February 4, 2021, looks a lot like President Joe Biden’s plan to expand, and transform, the child tax credit to be fully refundable to give parents monthly payments of up to $3,600 a year for the costs of raising their children due to COVID-19. But some say it might even be more generous.And because the plan on its face gives families more money and isn’t limited to existing for just […]

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The Minister of Economy during 1992-1995, Ignacio De Posadas , raised « Imitate the gringos » to face the crisis unleashed by the coronavirus health emergency. In a letter published in the Letters to the Search Director section, De Posadas proposed: «Why not think of a kind of Marshall Plan? Not of throwing money, Antel Arena type, yes of investing intelligently, added to a competitiveness plan. More than ‘added’, tied, ”he wrote.

The nationalist assured that Uruguay needs to « do something to get out of the well » and that the measures proposed by the Frente Amplio – a […]

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The study found the benefits were reversed when the short-lived project was axed. Ravi Gokani is an assistant professor of social work in Lakehead University’s school of social work (LU photo) THUNDER BAY — It will likely come as no surprise to recipients of the now-cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) program that a study has found the program was significantly helpful.

Its benefits, however, were reversed when the project was axed by a new government.

A Lakehead University social work professor led a research team that investigated the impacts, and is now making its findings public.The planned three-year pilot was […]

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News United Way of Broome County has partnered with 211 Susquehanna River Region and Broome County DSS to offer free tax preparation services to locals through the IRS approved tax program, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (also known as VITA).

By way of the VITA program, IRS certified volunteers assist qualified individuals with basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing at no cost . Individuals earning less than 66 thousand dollars annually may be eligible to have their tax returns filed for free as well as qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In partnership with community partners and […]

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