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Preliminary results of the basic income experiment: self.

The basic income experiment did not increase the employment level of the participants in the first year of the experiment. However, at the end of the experiment the recipients of a basic income perceived their wellbeing as being better than did those in the control group. The results are to some extent preliminary, and it is not yet possible to draw any firm conclusions regarding the effects. Eduardo Porter writes the Economic Scene column for The New York Times. Formerly he was a member of The Times editorial board, where […]

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Within the European Union structures a debate has commenced on adequate minimum wages throughout the Union. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had stated on her appointment that she would be proposing a legal instrument to ensure that every worker in the Union has a fair minimum wage.

The consultation process within the EU was launched over one year ago. As a result, a proposal for an EU Directive on adequate minimum wages has been finalised together with a number of supporting documents, including a 240 page long extensive impact assessment In an explanatory memorandum published by the EU together […]

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Universal Basic Income Universal basic income ( UBI ) is a government program in which every adult citizen receives a set amount of money on a regular basis. The goals of a basic income system are to alleviate poverty and replace other need-based social programs that potentially require greater bureaucratic involvement.

This sounds like a good Idea however UBI is a flawed idea , not least because it would be prohibitively expensive unless accompanied by deep cuts to the rest of the safety net. In the U.S. (population: 327 million), a UBI of just $1,000 per month would cost around […]

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Families with young children currently living in deep poverty in Yolo County would receive monthly cash assistance under a universal basic income pilot project that county supervisors will consider on Tuesday.

A total of 31 families in the CalWORKS Housing Support Program with children under the age of two would receive monthly payments for a year, up to a maximum of $12,155 annually per family.

That cash assistance, combined with the CalWORKS grant they already receive to help with housing costs, would bring these families’ incomes up to a minimum poverty threshold ($25,658 for a family of four).The total cost of […]

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Never Trumper Mitt Romney will redistribute our wealth even more dramatically than Cory Booker, who wants to give every child born in America $1,000 each year until they’re 18. Romney is the more communistic Democrat.

Vox reports that Mitt introduced a bill that would give up to $15,000 a year handout to parents [to be paid for by the retired worker or China?]. Mislabeled The Family Security Act, the bill would offer up to $350 per month, per child, to help parents raise their children.

This will be paid for with government fairy dust.Why doesn’t he just let us keep […]

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Teaching and Learning in Disruptive Futures: Automation

06 February 2021 – This was a far cry from her days here with Barbara, where we whispered our goodbyes. It was both psychologically and militarily necessary. She must truly have no idea how beautiful she looked. We lost a little girl this morning. Will it account for and manage the practicalities of work, money and automation, given the limits of endless growth on a finite planet? Money and Work Unchained drags the now-popular concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) from the shadows of Pundit blather into a harsh, illuminating light, […]

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The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken Canadian society to its core. Political leaders were forced to turn to radical means to contain the spread of the virus and to provide for citizens who have been put out of work. It has been nearly a year since the new restrictions and lock downs were put into place. Canada’s most populace provinces are still wrestling with high case counts. Worse, the vaccine rollout has been abysmal in comparison to Canada’s peers in the G7. Today, I want to discuss why a CRA-administered basic income may become a reality after this historical crisis. […]

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More than three dozen New York City mayoral candidates are vying for one of the toughest jobs in the country: leading the nation’s largest city back to pre-pandemic employment levels while trying to find the funding to do so.

In the run-up to the June 22 primary, candidates have been detailing their visions for the city’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, which wiped out nearly 878,000 jobs in the second quarter of 2020, according to the city’s Independent Budget Office. Although an estimated 20% of those jobs returned by the third quarter, pre-pandemic levels of employment might not return […]

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Robert Del Naja, of the Bristol pioneers, talks about the power and danger of nostalgia as well as his work collaborating with Adam Curtis

usicians have been faced with an impossible puzzle since March 2020: with gigs and festivals mothballed for the foreseeable future, how to maintain a profile? For Massive Attack , a solution was probably less of a reach than for many artists. After all, for the Bristolian pioneers, sound and vision have been interacting in unconventional ways for decades. Robert “3D” Del Naja was a graffiti artist before he set foot in a recording studio. His work […]

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