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To what extent do cash transfers cushion the blow to poor families during hard times? Taking advantage of a pre-existing large-scale evaluation of a universal basic income project in Kenya, researchers measured how different types of cash transfers impact recipients’ income, reported well-being, food security, mental health, and social interaction in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying agricultural seasonality. Researchers found that although the income gains from small businesses started before the pandemic were wiped out, transfer recipients experienced modestly better food security and physical and mental health than those who had not received transfers, along […]

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Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen. Helsingin Sanomat investigates claims made by the opposition Finns Party that the government’s proposal to provide an additional 75 euros per month to recipients of social assistance payments for the rest of this year will instead unfairly benefit immigrants and single men.

State benefits agency Kela pays the basic social assistance payment "to individuals and families whose income and assets do not cover their essential daily expenses".

HS writes that when Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen (Left) introduced the proposal to Parliament, she said the additional payment was intended to […]

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1 / 12 British monthly magazine ‘Prospect’ has announced that state Health Minister KK Shailaja has been selected as the world’s top thinker for the Covid-19 age. 2 / 12 The communist leader has been selected from a list of 50 personalities which include Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand; philosopher Cornel West; historian of slavery Olivette Otele among others. (Photo | Prospect magazine) 4 / 12 #2 JACINDA ARDERN (NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER): According to Prospect, Jacinda’s governing “ethos of kindness” was drawing interest as a refreshing (if hazy) alternative to neo-liberalism even before it showed practical […]

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A job can mean many things. Most important to the employee is that the job pay enough for him/her and the family to live on. Second is personal satisfaction in doing the job and being part of the organization in which one works . To the employer it is important that the job being done adds to the value and success of the organization, Part of this is that the price for the employee is at least equivalent to the value the work adds. To the society, the importance of a job is that it adds to […]

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Andrew Yang

Last fall I was contacted by the Andrew Yang campaign to see if I would speak at one of his events. I was not a part of the “Yang Gang” but one or more on my talks on the concept of the Universal Basic income had come to the attention of his campaign and they wanted to get me in front of their supporters. I couldn’t be in New York last October, when they first wanted me, then we rescheduled later in the primary season, but he concluded his bid for the presidency before that date arrived.

I was […]

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Today I am joined by Keiko Sono , artist and founder of Forged Art Collective , previously on the show last September, episode #87, who returns to talk more about Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the upcoming, Woodstock 20 March for the Future.

You can join in the Woodstock ’20: March for the Future by making art and music, and shape the future of humanity.

"On Saturday, September 19th, people all over the country will rise up and demand a society that is humanity first. No more profit over wellbeing. No more winners-take-all economy. No more accepting greed as the dominant […]

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Basic Finns criticize the government’s proposed “corona supplement” for income support. According to statistics requested by HS, about one in three recipients of income support speaks a language other than Finnish or Swedish as their mother tongue, and one in three recipients is a single man.

Opposition party Basic Finns reviewed on Tuesday and Wednesday the government’s proposal for a corona supplement of 75 euros to be paid to persons receiving income support during the rest of the year. Temporary support costs the state about 60 million euros.

Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen (left) said in his introductory […]

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Several years ago, researchers in Kenya decided to study the effects of a universal basic income (UBI) trial on people’s wellbeing. Some 6,000 recipients in a 12-year trial beginning around 2017 received 75 cents a day — not much, but enough, their research found, for people to be less food-insecure and more likely to start a business. Others received payments for just two years (that ended in December 2019), and still others received a lump sum payment.

In early 2020, the coronavirus hit. In response, governments like Kenya’s imposed harsh lockdowns that sought to prevent the virus’s spread but that […]

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