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Loc: Mn 4,000 Canadian families will soon get paid by Ontario for doing nothing http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/4000…;ocid=thanksDHP OTTAWA — The government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, is joining the basic-income bandwagon with the launch of a three-year pilot program that will test how paying people an unconditional basic wage works in practice.“Many people are concerned about what the world is promising their kids,” Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said at a Monday news conference announcing the three-year experiment. “It’s a world of global competition, reduced benefits, more and more part-time employment.”Under the plan, Ontario will provide […]

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne speaks at the Ford Essex Engine Plant in Windsor, Ont. on Thursday, March 30, 2017. Ontario is launching a basic income pilot project this spring, aimed at providing financial stability for low-income residents during a time of precarious work and a changing economy. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne revealed her plans this week for the long-promised pilot study on Basic Income. Advocates for Basic Income schemes want to replace traditional social assistance with a new, simpler way to fight poverty. Basic Income plans try to improve the incentive to work while not busting the budget. The […]

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The American Interest isn’t impressed with proposals for a “universal basic income” approach to welfare, particularly as a means of adjusting for a changing economy: It’s easy to see why this idea is appealing to Silicon Valley technologists, to economic policy wonks, to citizens of rationalia. It satisfies fully the demands of what Shadi Hamid has called “chart-based” liberalism, with its homo economicus model of human behavior. Globalized capitalism is exacerbating inequality and squeezing jobs outside of metropolitan centers? The capitalist winners can just pay off the losers with a UBI and go about their merry way. The price […]

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Kathleen Wynne, the premier of Ontario, speaks during an event at the Vector Institute in Toronto on March 30, 2017. On April 24, Wynne announced that Ontario will launch a three-year, basic-income pilot project. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg) OTTAWA — The government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, is joining the basic-income bandwagon with the launch of a three-year pilot program that will test how paying people an unconditional basic wage works in practice.

“Many people are concerned about what the world is promising their kids,” Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said at a Monday news conference announcing the three-year experiment. “It’s a […]

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Nobody is safe from the automation cliff. If we want to avoid this enormously disruptive trend, the time is now to start the process of implementing universal basic income. In this episode of The News Lens Radio, we sound out the views of experts and academics working on advocacy and implementation of a universal basic income (UBI) – the unconditional distribution of enough cash for all of us to secure a basic standard of living.

Critics have called UBI unaffordable, a deterrent to seeking work, and in the case of Switzerland, which rejected a nationwide referendum on the scheme last […]

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It was the summer of ’69, the end of the decade that brought us flower power and Woodstock, rock ’n’ roll and Vietnam, Martin Luther King and feminism. It was a time when everything seemed possible, even a conservative president strengthening the welfare state.

In August of that year, President Nixon presented a bill providing for a modest basic income, calling it “the most significant piece of social legislation in our nation’s history.” According to Nixon, the baby boomers would do two things deemed impossible by earlier generations. Besides putting a man on the moon (which had happened the month […]

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It’s not just the manufacturing sectors, everything is changing.Consider the new technologies we hear about every day. From driverless vehicles, drone delivery services, fully-automated shops, right through to software designed to replace doctors in prescribing medication.A universal basic income may well be the only option in the future, unless we decide to have a massive culling of the human race…2 people like this Member Member Member I’ve seen it and variants on numerous sources. The Trans-humanist Party and trans-humanists in general talk quite a bit about it as well as "enhanced humans" vs […]

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Canada’s Justin Trudeau is spearheading an effort to test a universal basic income in Ontario. The expensive trial will run for three years. Canada plans to launch an expensive and controversial experiment. Eligible Ontario households will receive up to $24,000 a year while the government tests the merits of providing a universal basic income.

Basic income proposals are supported by both conservative and liberal intellectuals. The left focuses on the gains that would accrue to the poor while some Republicans believe that it’s an alternative to bloated government infrastructure. Welfare offices currently dot the country and employ thousands of people.

“People […]

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