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UK: Parliament hosts oral evidence session on universal basic income (video)

UK: Parliament hosts oral evidence session on universal basic income (video)

A Parliamentary session on universal basic income (commonly known in the UK as “citizen’s income”) was held at the University of Birmingham on January 12, 2017.

This session had the status of an “inquiry”, a formal call for information on the topic of citizen’s income, in the form of an oral evidence session to the Work and Pensions Committee of the UK Parliament.

While this is not the first time in recent history that citizen’s income has been discussed in the UK Parliament (in September 2016, MPs debated the topic in the House of Commons), it is the first event […]

Basic Income Guarantee advocates demand action

Basic Income Guarantee advocates demand action

Protesters gathered outside of Ontario Housing Minister Chris Ballard’s Basic Income Guarantee consultation on Thursday evening, demanding the province bypass its proposed pilot project that wouldn’t be complete before the 2018 election.

0 Fifty demonstrators called on the province to dispense with its two to three-year pilot trial for the proposed Basic Income Guarantee program and begin ensuring all Ontarians have access to a living wage immediately. THUNDER BAY — Most of the 50 people demonstrating outside of Ontario’s Basic Income Guarantee consultation on Thursday evening weren’t protesting the proposed policy.

They want a minimum income instated now.Thunder Bay Coalition […]

Job losses through automation a real concern to leaders at Davos

Job losses through automation a real concern to leaders at Davos

An attendee communicate with SARA, a socially aware robot assisstant, during a presentation at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.

And while business leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos relish the productivity gains technology can bring, they warned this week that the collateral damage to jobs needs to be addressed more seriously.

From taxi drivers to […]

Will AI Bless Us With A 15 Hour Work-Week, Or Turn Us Into Paperclips?

Will AI Bless Us With A 15 Hour Work-Week, Or Turn Us Into Paperclips?

Francois Lenoir / Reuters With scaremongers predicting millions of job losses and an increasing divide between the haves and the have-nots, it was interesting to see the results of a recent White House report into AI. Yes, there will be job losses, but the report found that business productivity will rise, which could prompt an increase in average salaries. The benefits for the global workforce should not be ignored.

When you think of the average white-collar office job, it probably doesn’t conjure up images of a room full of whizz kids staring at glistening monitors replete with fancy graphs and […]

India Is Considering Giving 20 Million Citizens Free Money

India Is Considering Giving 20 Million Citizens Free Money

One of the biggest countries in the world is coming closer to implementing one of today’s buzziest ideas in economics: Universal basic income. Or at least a version of it.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, which is being held this week in Davos, Switzerland , Amitabh Kant, an Indian economic official, said the country is seriously considering a plan in which the government would hand out free money to about 20 million Indian citizens.

The Indian government is reportedly close to releasing a formal report on the new basic universal income proposal, which follows India’s small 2011 trial of universal […]

Davos Elites Are Increasingly Stressed About Robots Taking Your Job

Davos Elites Are Increasingly Stressed About Robots Taking Your Job

Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.

And while business leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos relish the productivity gains technology can bring, they warned this week that the collateral damage to jobs needs to be addressed more seriously .

From taxi drivers to healthcare professionals, technologies such as robotics, driverless cars, artificial intelligence and 3-D printing mean more and more types of jobs are at risk.Adidas, for example, aims to use 3-D printing in the manufacture of […]

Social Security in India – Basic Income Scheme or NREGA?

Social Security in India – Basic Income Scheme or NREGA?

Social Security in India – Basic Income Scheme or NREGA? The bulk of workers in Ind… Bodhi Booster, Bodhi Saar, Knowledge portal, Government schemes, MNREGA, Basic Income Scheme, social security in India Social Security in India – Basic Income Scheme or NREGA?

The bulk of workers in India fall into the informal sector. With no pensions or other benefits, their jobs are not only vulnerable, they are precarious. Post-demonetisation, the expectations of people about an “ India of their dreams ” as promised by the PM in November 2016, are high. It is expected that the government will launch […]

Australian Politics Forum

Australian Politics Forum

longweekend58 BigOl64 wrote Today at 1:24pm:

Unforgiven wrote Yesterday at 5:54pm:

It IS a right, like it or not. Bullsh1t!Just because some pollie said something a few lifetime ago, does not make it a right; it is something that was said once, nothing more.We have no rights, we have obligations and privileges, welfare is but one of them. As greece found out, when there is no money the big bucket of ‘free’ welfare comes to a screaming halt.Learn to live without someone else supporting you; you will be a lot happier.Well said. And Menzies was referring to an […]

This Finnish man gets a $600 per month ‘basic income’ for doing positively nothing

This Finnish man gets a $600 per month ‘basic income’ for doing positively nothing

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Earlier this year, in an bid to learn about people’s work habits, Finland launched an experiment giving $600 to 2,000 impoverished Finns each month for dual years.Kela, a sovereign group using a experiment, billed it as a mutated chronicle of a mercantile indication famous as universal simple income, nonetheless some people argued it didn’t qualify. Given people had to be unemployed, it wasn’t technically universal.Juha Jarvinen, one of a 2,000 propitious recipients, was not one of those naysayers.“I was forgetful to get into a exam and now I’m here,” the 37-year-old businessman and father […]

Ex-PM, philosopher and ecologist in French Socialist primary

Seven candidates are seeking to clinch the nomination to be the ruling Socialist party candidate in France’s presidential elections due in April and May this year.

Voting takes place on January 22 and 29 in a primary contest that will decide the nominee.

Here are brief profiles of the six men and one woman who are running:- Manuel Valls -The Spanish-born 54-year-old is a Barcelona football club fan who served as prime minister from 2014 until last month under outgoing and highly unpopular Socialist President Francois Hollande.After helping persuade Hollande not to seek re-election, Valls has appeared caught between his reformist, […]