Tag: basic income

Money for nothing

Money for nothing

Filippo Nogarin is that rare specimen in Italian politics – an unashamed optimist. Elected mayor of the port city of Livorno in 2014, Nogarin is a member of the controversial Five Star Movement – an anti-establishment party founded by the TV comedian Beppe Grillo . Since then, Nogarin has attempted to position himself as a figure for change at the frontline of the Mediterranean crisis: fighting for economic justice, social equality and environmental protections.

In June this year, the Tuscan municipality launched its most ambitious initiative yet: a basic income scheme to tackle urban poverty – the first in Italy […]

Hamilton activists demand action rather than talk to reduce poverty

Hamilton activists demand action rather than talk to reduce poverty

Basic Income pilot project meeting Stoney Creek News

Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction member Ursula Samuels demanded the provincial government do something substantive about poverty immediately rather than merely talk about it.

“We need action now,” Samuels told provincial officials towards the end of nearly a three-hour public meeting held by the Ontario government at the Crown Plaza Nov. 22 on implementing a basic income program.“We know what we really need. We face it every day.”Samuels echoed the sentiment that a number of poverty activists proclaimed at the event, greeting about 90 people taking part in the public meeting, one of […]

How to Fix the Economy: Universal Basic Income?

How to Fix the Economy: Universal Basic Income?

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Join Date Location Posts Points Level Points: 22,065, Level: 15 Level completed: 84%,
Points required for next Level: 485 Overall activity: 25.0% The concept of a universal government income is not a new one, and it has been largely an unrealistic pipe dream for most if not all of human history.

As technology, robotics, voice recognition and AI continue to advance, it seems increasingly inevitable to me that a guaranteed living wage is going to become a necessity for most nations in the coming years.
The fast food industry is going to be revolutionised by robotic workers […]

Basic income pilot project meeting Jan. 12 in Cobourg

Basic income pilot project meeting Jan. 12 in Cobourg

Lou Rinaldi Public consultations about launching a basic income pilot project are taking place in Cobourg Jan. 12, says Northumberland-Quinte West MPP Lou Rinaldi.

A series of these public sessions are taking place across Ontario to “refine” the report from Hugh Segal entitled: “Finding a Better Way – A Basic Income Pilot Project for Ontario,” he said.

According to a summary of Segal’s report: “A pilot project must begin with an understanding of the costs of poverty, not only in present welfare and disability payments, but also in terms of added pressures on our health system, and the Ontario economy as […]

Basic Income could raise the bar for everyone

Basic Income could raise the bar for everyone

Panel Discussion with (LtoR):Karen Levasseur, Jim Mulvale, Sid Frankel and Jennifer Mays. I was riding in a car with my brother-in-law after attending the November 24 Basic Income Symposium at Winnipeg Harvest, and we got into a conversation (or perhaps more of a monologue) about the relative levels of poverty in Canada and in China, where he had been living.

He had a hard time understanding why a rich country like Canada, with a social safety net that most people can access, at least to some extent, would need anything like a Basic Income for all. In Shanghai, he said, […]

Why I’m against Universal Basic Income

Why I’m against Universal Basic Income

Acvitists from "Generation Grundeinkommen" (Generation Basic Income) dump 8 million Swiss 5-cent coins in the main square in Bern, Switzerland, to celebrate a successful petition for a referendum to incorporate Basic Income in the Swiss constitution. However, it was later rejected in a referendum. Recently the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) has gained a lot of traction in Left circles in the UK, with calls for Jeremy Corbyn to adopt it and try and make it Labour party policy. This morning, I saw an article on Medium by Frances Coppola, Why the changing nature of work means […]

US: Cultural advocacy group releases platform, demands basic income

US: Cultural advocacy group releases platform, demands basic income

The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture , a non-governmental organization that promotes “programs and policies that cultivate creativity, empathy, and collaboration”, released a new platform on November 19, 2016 — aimed at protecting Americans’ right to culture under a Trump presidency.

The platform consists of 10 policy demands — from a public service jobs program to criminal justice reform to investment in arts education — including a basic income grant.

About the basic income grant, the USDAC writes (pp. 22-23): [R]ising costs, falling spending-power, the uncertainty of the economy, macroeconomic policies that have placed corporate success above individual well-being. For […]

Brits to get FREE MONEY for nothing ‘within 10 years – as work could be abolished’

Brits to get FREE MONEY for nothing 'within 10 years – as work could be abolished'

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/pol/ – Politically Incorrect

>> >Have a friend
>He is a hippie leftest
>He is "bi"–has sex with dudes more often than with girls
>Smokes weed er’day
>Smokes some kind of crystal that is apparently "synthesized weed extract">Works a very hard manual labour industrial job>Believes in free basic incomeWhat the fuck is wrong with him? He’s a nice guy who is very generous and trusting, but something isn’t right in his weed addled brain. I confronted him about it, about how his tax dollars taken off his manual labour job check is going towards people abusing the system, and he just spouted a whole bunch of hippie […]