Category: Basic Income

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks about COVID-19 on July 8, 2020. Photo by Kamara Morozuk Young people are eager for word that universal basic income and an ambitiously green recovery are on the agenda when the Liberal government unveils its reworked COVID-19 pandemic recovery plan.

“We need it to be visionary,” said Catherine Abreu, the executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, about the throne speech coming Wednesday. “Young people want to hear about how we are going to move from a society where the unequal distribution of wealth and resources is increasing” to one that is more equitable, she […]

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Basic Income Rally on the Boston Common Activists gathered in over 40 cities across the world Saturday to advocate for Universal Basic Income, or UBI, at the second annual March for Basic Income.

“Universal Basic Income is where every American citizen would be able to receive a simple income of anywhere from $500 to $2,000 a month regardless of your means,” said Melissa Lin, Massachusetts state lead for the Humanity First collective. “The point is that everyone deserves to start with an economic floor, and that’s not there right now.”

About 150 people gathered on the Boston Common and included 17 […]

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Values matter: what we and those around us hold dear is one of the biggest predictors of political behaviour, especially as identities become more complex and more self-authored. That is why Labour’s new general secretary David Evans has been a strong advocate for the ‘values model’ of understanding political behaviour. This splits the public into three broad tribes: ‘settlers’, social conservatives who are interested in economic and cultural security and the local; ‘prospectors’, concerned with appearances and social status; and ‘pioneers’, society’s innovators concerned with personal development and non-material goals such as learning and personal development.

To explore what this […]

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Bimbola Oyesola

As a fallout of the negative impact of COVID-19 and to guarantee at least basic income security and access to essential health care for all in 2020 alone, Nigeria and other developing countries should invest approximately $1.2 trillion – on average 3.8 per cent of their GDP, says International Labour Organization (ILO).

According to ILO, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the social protection financing gap has increased by approximately 30 per cent according to Financing gaps in social protection: Global estimate and strategies for developing countries in light of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.The […]

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Earlier this month, Congress failed to pass Republicans’ $300 billion coronavirus economic relief bill. Democrats refused to support the measure — in part because it was too small, and in part because it included liability protections for businesses, which Democrats fear will allow corporations to endanger worker health during a national health crisis. The collapse of negotiations could mean no economic relief till after the November elections — an avoidable disaster at a time when 13 million Americans remain out of work and unemployment is at 8.4%. More than a third of small business owners say they will have […]

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With the social and financial damage COVID-19 has done to worldwide economies, Germany will experiment with universal basic income over a three year period with 120 volunteers. The experiment will be conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research and funded by 140,000 individuals’ private donations.

Germany will provide the citizens a monthly stipend of €1,200, or about $1,430, which is just above the country’s poverty level. These citizens will be compared to 1,380 other German citizens not receiving universal basic income (UBI).

According to Business Insider, BUI is “the idea that a government should pay a lump sum of money […]

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Imagine living in a arid environment that cannot sustain many animals or vegetation. You’re in a small community that uses a mix of farming and harvesting for food resources. It’s also over 100 miles to get to any other village, by foot due to the bad terrain. In this environment, you all manage to get just enough food and water to keep everyone alive and relatively healthy given the circumstances. Yet in the last drought several people in the community died, luckily this year isn’t quite as bad.

Scarcity

It likely goes without saying, but in these types of […]

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – MARCH 2: The Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, South Africa, photographed on March 2, 2012. The Constitutional Court of South Africa is Johannesburg’s newest historical landmark and a unique architectural symbol of South Africa’s democracy. (Photo by Gallo Images / Foto24 / Nicolene Olckers) Less This week sees two days being marked internationally while, in South Africa, local events focus on Heritage Day, climate change and economic development.

In an address celebrating Heritage Day in 1996, former president Nelson Mandela said:

“ When our first democratically elected government decided to make Heritage Day one of our […]

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