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Paul Ratner in Big Think : ScreenHunter_2536 Jan. 24 20.48 Jobs were a big topic in the 2016 Presidential election in the United States and continues to be a hot-button issue. The loss of manufacturing jobs in the Rust Belt states was largely responsible for propelling Donald Trump to a surprise win. As President-elect, Trump has continued to push the jobs message, making deals like his recent involvement in the fate of Indiana’s Carrier plant to show that he will bring jobs back to regions with great job loss. Yet, regardless of such efforts, many futurists are predicting that […]

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Image by Marc van der Chijs (License CC BY-SA 2.0) The idea of societies having a basic income has been gaining momentum for the past several years. Currently, there are several pilot projects of varying sizes going on around the world. Some of them in places you might not expect. Today, I’d like to walk you through some of the most interesting basic income pilots currently underway, and a couple that are still in the planning stages.

The Finland Basic Income Experiment

In December of 2016, Finland’s national government authorized a two year, basic income pilot project, giving […]

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Universal basic income is emerging as a realistic policy position across Europe. As we reported in late 2015, local authorities across the Netherlands are currently running trials to award every citizen unconditional money from the state. And this year, Finland started an experiment of 2,000 randomly selected people, all of whom currently receive out of work benefits.

The first monthly payments of €560 ($590) were paid into those people’s accounts within the last week, and the trial will examine the impact of that money on overall employment. Now, sweeping further to the west, plans are underway to establish basic income […]

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Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog Arvind Panagariya NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya is of the firm view that the country simply does not have the necessary fiscal resources for a Universal Basic Income scheme, a proposal being advocated by Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian. Subramanian will delve upon the possibilities of such a scheme in the Economic Survey which, if accepted by the government, could be an unprecedented decision anywhere in the world.

In an interview to The Indian Express, Panagariya said, “At the current level of income and our needs for investment in health, education, infrastructure and defence, […]

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"Mort Pour Rien" is French for "Black Lives Matter"–even if they’re trying to murder a gendarme. For some time, I’ve argued a Basic Income policy is all but inevitable as automation continues and an increasing share of the population becomes not just unemployed, but unemployable. Of course, as with every other major policy area from health care to education, immigration is the most important aspect of all this because no state can provide a subsidy for nothing to the entire world’s population without suffering complete social collapse. Still, the political movements which can come to terms with and think […]

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Despite all the uncertainty of global politics and economics, a citizen’s income could help us Glaswegians regain some control in 2017.

In many ways 2016 was a bad year for progressives. Welfare cuts, unfair work conditions and food banks remained; attitudes hardened towards refugees and immigrants; and right wing populists won the vote over Brexit and the White House. But, behind all of this, 2016 was also a year in which those wanting a more economically just, open and equal world also made their mark.

In Glasgow, local people met in community halls to plan local currencies, held protests to force […]

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