Category: Basic Income

Basic Income and the Freedom to Refuse

Basic Income and the Freedom to Refuse

Criminal legal debt provides a revealing lens through which to examine universal basic income (UBI). It highlights a path to potential failure: fetishizing labor markets as the engine of economic inequality ignores how today’s criminal legal system carries forward racial capitalism’s techniques of targeted extraction. Yet recognizing this also opens a door to more robust visions of UBI that join together the powers of work refusal and debt refusal .

UBI’s radical appeal has been staked to its potential to enable in practice and convey in principle a refusal of the labor market. As Kathi Weeks explains in theorizing a […]

Kim Se-yeon, Lee Jae-myeong “40,000 won per month? Cosmetic sample level” in basic income

Kim Se-yeon, Lee Jae-myeong “40,000 won per month? Cosmetic sample level” in basic income

The Power of the People Kim Se-yeon, former member of the Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myeong, pointed out that “what is difficult to call basic income is unreasonably called basic income”.

Rep. Kim said on his Facebook page on the 15th, “Governor Lee Jae-myeong’s perception of the technological revolution and its ripple effect is more advanced than others. However, with a payment of about 41600 won per month, Calling this’basic income’ is not appropriate because the difference between the name and the essence is so great.”

In the short term, the Governor insisted on implementing a basic income policy of 500,000 […]

For a guarantee of employment and not a guaranteed income – Liberation

For a guarantee of employment and not a guaranteed income – Liberation

Universal income is back. The idea defended during the last presidential election by Benoît Hamon resurfaces while the health crisis reveals the blind spots of our collective protection and that public opinion is seized by the destitution of a part of the youth. Personalities, from left to right on the political spectrum, appropriate the measure, which could become a solution to the social crisis due to Covid and be debated during the presidential campaign.

Emergency monetary support measures, in particular for the benefit of young students, are undeniably necessary in the face of the crisis. However, “the aftermath” requires that […]

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Re Nursing Jobs In Demand As Pandemic Hits Hard At Health Care (Feb. 8): My partner, who holds a bachelor of science, dreams of retraining as a nurse, but the educational and regulatory barriers are daunting.

In addition to high tuition costs, unpaid work placements and years-long waitlists, many programs require applicants to complete various competency assessments, or even obtain postsecondary credits at their own expense, with no guarantee of admission.No sooner is our aspiring nurse graduated that they must […]

Guaranteed Minimum Income: What Is It and How Is It Different From Universal Basic Income?

Guaranteed Minimum Income: What Is It and How Is It Different From Universal Basic Income?

Yulia Reznikov This story was published as part of Teen Vogue’ s 2021 Economic Security Project fellowship .

You’ve probably heard of universal basic income (UBI). It was a cornerstone of the 2020 presidential campaign of Andrew Yang , who offered a $1,000 monthly “Freedom Dividend” to American adults. During the COVID-19 pandemic, some lawmakers have pushed for the government to provide monthly direct payments to all households so people could pay rent or other expenses. As Rebekka Ayres wrote for Teen Vogue , UBI basically proposes “that the government provides every citizen with a lump sum of income […]

[KH Explains] Universal basic income enters Korean political limelight

[KH Explains] Universal basic income enters Korean political limelight

Gov. Lee’s progressive social welfare concept faces political hurdles ahead of presidential race A man pulls a trolley past a closed store in Sinchon district of Seoul on Nov. 28, 2020. (Yonhap) The idea of ensuring that everyone has at least some income has gained momentum in South Korea as the country experiences a major economic letdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The idea, championed first by Gyeonggi Province governor and president hopeful Lee Jae-myung, has quickly become a fiercely debated topic among presidential contenders from all sides.

Proponents say it is a means to narrow the growing wealth gap and make […]

Instead of a universal basic income, governments should enrich existing social programmes

Instead of a universal basic income, governments should enrich existing social programmes

Picture: Bongani Mbatha /African News Agency (ANA) Sirvan Karimi

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has been touted by those across the political spectrum as a prospective model of social security that would provide guaranteed cash to citizens.

But while UBI is desirable in principle, it’s not a magic solution to the intricate and perennial problems of poverty and income inequality. Its implementation in Canada is not financially, administratively, politically or constitutionally feasible.Within emerging literature on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on employment and earning levels, UBI has been elevated to the status of […]

[KH Explains] Universal basic income under political debate in Korea

[KH Explains] Universal basic income under political debate in Korea

A man pulls a trolley past a closed store in Sinchon district of Seoul on Nov. 28, 2020. (Yonhap) The idea of ensuring that everyone has at least some income has gained momentum in South Korea as the country experiences a major economic letdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The idea, championed first by Gyeonggi Province governor and presidential hopeful Lee Jae-myung, has quickly become a fiercely debated topic among presidential contenders from all sides.

Proponents say it is a means to narrow the growing wealth gap and make up for future job losses. Naysayers worry that what they call the "populist […]

New Philip Rosedale Simulation Suggests Limits of UBI On Rich/Poor Divide

New Philip Rosedale Simulation Suggests Limits of UBI On Rich/Poor Divide

What you’re looking at above is a follow-up simulation of wealth inequity by Philip Rosedale , who recently created a simulation which showed how a divide between rich and poor will emerge even when everyone starts at a hypothetically equal state , income-wise.

This new simulation basically models the injection of universal basic income — a solution to the rich/poor divide recently popularized by Presidential candidate Andrew Yang. But as Philip writes, while UBI helps in the short term, his new simulation suggests that the wealth gap quickly starts growing, even with UBI : Even with money printing left [i.e. […]

Middle income countries

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