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From ‘barely surviving’ to thriving: Ontario basic income recipients report less stress, better health, Feb. 24

Your story demonstrates two important early takeaways from Ontario’s basic income pilot project.

First, the pilot shows that providing more income to people living in poverty has a positive impact in their lives.This is no surprise. Countless studies demonstrate the connection between income and a variety of health and well-being indicators.Kudos to the participants for being able to purchase things they’ve long gone without because of their low incomes — which in 4 of 5 cases were a product of the province’s current social […]

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Scott Santens, Universal Basic Income Scott Santens has a crowdfunded monthly basic income and has been a moderator of the Basic Income community on Reddit since 2013. com/r/BasicIncomeActivism · Basic Income Europe. In regards to links and self-posts, don’t downvote them just because you disagree with them. II’m a donor but didn’t get the flair. If you have a question, search the subreddit and check the FAQ before asking; if the Aug 21, 2017 To get that education process started, I invited Scott Santens to join us on the podcast. It is very possible that I misunderstand something. Basic […]

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User ID: 1337 Posts: 848 Post: #61 RE: The Case for Universal Basic Income
LoP Guest Wrote: (Today 01:03 AM) By itself UBI is a horrible idea, who the hell is going to pay for it? As long as your’re going to do that you may as well include mandatory sterilization as a condition of collecting benefits, since the last thing you want as someone who is paying for it is more that can’t contribute collecting benefits on the sole basis that it would be cheaper than incarcerating them, bullets are cheap, don’t make […]

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Political philosopher and economist Karl Widerquist, an associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar , remembers a poll from 10 years ago that showed just 12 percent of Americans approved of a universal basic income.

That’s changed — and quickly. Today, 48 percent of Americans support it, according to a new Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults.

"It represents an enormous increase in support," said Widerquist, who is a well-known advocate for a universal basic income. "It’s really promising."Proposals for universal basic income programs vary, but the most common one is a system in which the federal government […]

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How would you like to receive $500 a month, no strings attached?

Stockton, California, a city outside of Silicon Valley, is providing such benefits to a group of their low income residents in a pilot version of universal basic income.

Universal basic income is a policy that gives all people a set amount of benefits without requirements or stipulations. After a brief stint of popularity in the 1970s, the idea has resurged in the public interest, with backers including innovators Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg , union leader Andy Stern , and even libertarian Charles Murray .The pilot program, called the […]

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Political philosopher and economist Karl Widerquist, an associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar , remembers a poll from 10 years ago that showed just 12 percent of Americans approved of a universal basic income.

That’s changed — and quickly. Today, 48 percent of Americans support it, according to a new Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults.

"It represents an enormous increase in support," said Widerquist, who is a well-known advocate for a universal basic income. "It’s really promising."Proposals for universal basic income programs vary, but the most common one is a system in which the federal government […]

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The Rev Susan Bowden Pickstock, Rector of the Saxon Shore Benefice. We shouldn’t spend all our time ‘doing’ at the expense of thinking, says The Rev Susan Bowden Pickstock.

These days I often find myself in a graveyard, in fact I’ve grown very fond of all my churchyards, and the people in them. One of my responsibilities is to oversee the stones and their inscriptions.

How fascinating, then, to learn about an ancient Roman. Scipio Barbatus’ epitaph is a pithy few lines on a stone slab. It says who he was and what he did. In contrast Emperor Augustus writes […]

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The American public is split on the prospect of giving a universal basic income to Americans who lose their jobs to artificial intelligence , according to a new poll.

In a Gallup poll released Monday, 48 percent of those surveyed said they would support a universal basic income (UBI) compared to 52 percent that said they would oppose it.

There was a large difference in responses based on respondents’ political identification.Of respondents who said they are Democrats, 65 percent said they would support UBI, while only 28 percent of Republicans said they would support the measure.Support for UBI also varies by […]

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This suggests that Norway has sufficient wealth to initiate Basic income. Nov 25, UBI tests are already taking place in the Netherlands and Canada and further schemes are planned in Norway and Is basic income a better way to deal with poverty? The unemployment rate of Finland, a nation of 5. Philippe Van Parijs. There’s been a lot of excitement over universal basic income (UBI) recently, with a venture capital firm and governments in Ontario and Norway planning trial Finland’s experimental scheme to provide its citizens with a basic income, regardless of employment, launched earlier this week. More news […]

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Circles UBI Project: Basic Income on the Blockchain. 308 likes · 65 talking about this. It so happened that not so long ago, this What is Manna? The People’s Currency. A single vote takes just a tap, while more votes can be assigned to a single issue using a slider bar. Mannabase Soooo been thinking. This will help alleviate poverty, increase financial stability and inspire innovation. com for just $39 per month. The use of blockchain may solve this problem by turning every asset into a Smart Asset and automatically building a chain of smart contracts Solving job automation […]

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