Tag: basic income

‘Hope Goes a Long Way’: Guaranteed Income a Lifeline for Ex-Prisoners

Image by Bubba73, Creative Commons 3.0 Kevin Scott is a former prisoner and the programme director for Community Spring, a non-profit organisation in Gainesville, Florida. We caught up with Kevin at the 22nd Basic Income Guarantee Conference in San Francisco, California to discuss Just Income, their project providing a guaranteed income to recently released prisoners. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: What does a guaranteed income look like for recently released prisoners?

Kevin Scott: It’s freedom, opportunity, dignity. For many prisoners getting released, they’re not just ‘re-entering’ the world. They’re […]

Help with Affordable Housing in Herndon?

Help with Affordable Housing in Herndon?

Votes Possible path for new affordable and accessible housing in the Town of Herndon

Could there be a path for affordable and accessible housing for all incomes in the Town of Herndon? On Oct. 10, the New Virginia Majority (NVM) hosted a community meeting at the Herndon Fortnightly Library with Supervisor James N. Bierman Jr. (D-Dranesville) in attendance. The planned discussion focused on sharing information concerning housing vouchers, the universal basic income program, and housing construction with an emphasis on prefabricated affordable housing. A reported 50 people attended the meeting.

NVM, headquartered in Alexandria, a nonprofit, has as one of […]

CytoDyn Inc. SEC 10-Q Report

CytoDyn Inc. SEC 10-Q Report

CytoDyn Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the clinical development and potential commercialization of its product candidate, leronlimab, has released its Form 10-Q report for the quarter ended August 31, 2024. The report highlights significant financial improvements, strategic initiatives, and ongoing challenges as the company advances its clinical development programs.

Financial Highlights Total operating expenses : $(22.4) million, reflecting a significant decrease primarily due to a return of clinical expenses related to the settlement of the Company’s litigation with Amarex.

Operating gain (loss) : $22.4 million, a substantial improvement from the previous period’s loss of $(4.6) million. Net income […]

Germany to vote on big universal basic income experiment

Germany to vote on big universal basic income experiment

Germany to vote on big universal basic income experiment By German Press Agency

Translation by Raymond R. Watson, M.A.

See original post here. Referendum? For real this time. In support of a basic income pilot project 95,000 signatures were collected. The referendum could take place parallel to the German federal election.The people’s initiative “Hamburg Tests Basic Income” has, according to its own sources, successfully completed its petition as the second and final stage before a possible referendum. The initiators handed over a total of 95,842 signatures to the Hamburger state election office in the Ministry of the Interior – and […]

Worldcoin’s biometric proof of personhood – Why does it matter for data protection? (Part 1)

Worldcoin’s biometric proof of personhood – Why does it matter for data protection? (Part 1)

This blog post explores the technical aspects of Worldcoin, a Tools for Humanity Corporation project. It discusses the intricacies of privacy and data protection, considering the recent reactions from the DPAs.

Introduction

If you were to ask ChatGPT, “Tell me, what is common between Sam Altman, biometrics, and blockchain?” it might respond with something like this: “At the intersection of biometrics, AI and blockchain, Sam Altman is leading two groundbreaking initiatives: ChatGPT and Worldcoin.” While the world is captivated by the rapid evolution of generative AI, some of the organisations leading these advancements have quietly begun working on […]

A sustainable global universal basic income can be done. Here is how

A sustainable global universal basic income can be done. Here is how

In September, Pope Francis attended the World Meeting of Popular Movements, an initiative he launched 10 years ago as a platform for grassroots organisations to come together and address the “economy of exclusion and inequality”. During his speech at the event, the head of the Catholic Church renewed his call for a global universal basic income (UBI), saying that implementing such a measure would not only be a reflection of compassion but also “strict justice”.

Pope Francis has joined a growing international movement advocating for income redistribution through a scheme of unconditional monthly cash payments to every individual to cover […]

South Africa: We Discovered Massive Fraud in Sassa’s Grant System

South Africa: We Discovered Massive Fraud in Sassa's Grant System

SASSA needs to disclose how this happened and the scale of the problem

We are two first-year computer science students at Stellenbosch University. We have been looking for vulnerabilities in government as well as private-sector systems. We do this completely legally, by using publicly available internet resources, such as the backends of various government portals.

We inform all relevant institutions of any vulnerabilities we find, and in most cases give them sufficient time to address the issues before we disclose them publicly. We never exploit the vulnerabilities for our own benefit.But sometimes a system bug is so bad that it […]

A sustainable global universal basic income can be done. Here is how

A sustainable global universal basic income can be done. Here is how

Universal Basic Income written on a table during a session at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on January 23, 2018 [File: Reuters/Denis Balibouse] In September, Pope Francis attended the World Meeting of Popular Movements, an initiative he launched 10 years ago as a platform for grassroots organisations to come together and address the “economy of exclusion and inequality”. During his speech at the event, the head of the Catholic Church renewed his call for a global universal basic income (UBI), saying that implementing such a measure would not only be a reflection of compassion but […]

Basic Income

We’re going to try something new—our first Request For Research.

We’d like to fund a study on basic income—i.e., giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached. I’ve been intrigued by the idea for a while, and although there’s been a lot of discussion, there’s fairly little data about how it would work.

It’s true that we have systems in place to give people resources, but the bureaucracy and qualification requirements make it a very imperfect approximation of what most people mean when talking about a basic income. We have some examples of something close to a basic […]

The Cost Of Free Money

The Cost Of Free Money

Photo by Alexander Schimmeck / Unsplash Some politicians and activists are eager to give you “free” money. They call it universal basic income, or UBI—cash for everyone, no strings attached. Comedian Dave Chappelle thinks UBI would “save my community almost instantly.”

In my new video, UBI activist Conrad Shaw agrees, “You would effectively get rid of extreme poverty immediately.” He says a UBI will help people “start businesses, fix their homes or invest in sustainable gardens.”

Well, “sustainable gardens” might be nice, but someone still has to make stuff. And that requires work— often difficult work.When I was young, If I […]