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1.The current job market would be affected because there would be a guaranteed income. With all the jobs that are currently being done being automated, there would be a lack of people available to do those jobs. Industries such as construction, manufacturing and grocery stores would be most affected because the people who are currently doing those jobs would no longer have to do them.

2.A guaranteed basic income would have a significant impact on the current job market. First of all, it would allow people to transition from jobs that do not pay a living wage or are not […]

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In this photo illustration, a pregnant woman shows her belly. (Photo by Katja Knupper/Die Fotowerft/DeFodi Images via Getty Images) A guaranteed income program for pregnant Black women is expanding in California.

The Abundant Birth Project, a San Francisco Department of Public Health program operated in partnership with Expecting Justice, will launch next year in Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles and Riverside counties, and will continue in San Francisco.

"For so long, Black women have been excluded from the resources needed to have safe and healthy pregnancies. This funding will provide pregnant people with economic stability during this critical phase in their […]

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A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Basic Income

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For better or for worse, there are now a substantial number of Americans who know the name of Friedrich Hayek only because his most popular book, The Road to Serfdom , was recommended by FOX News personal- ity Glenn Beck as a prescient warning about the dangerous trajectory of the Obama Administration. Most of those people, I suspect, would be quite chagrined to discover that, consistently and throughout his entire career, Hayek defended the rather socialist-sounding idea of an “equal minimum income for all.” 1There is certainly something of a […]

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new paper co-authored by King’s researchers finds that insecure work can deprive people not only of the financial benefits of secure employment but also the social benefits of regular routine, identity, valued social status and positive social interactions.

The research is published in the journal Work, Employment and Society .

Co-authored by Dr. Annie Irvine from the Center for Society & Mental Health, the paper aims to synthesize evidence on how and why insecure employment poses mental heath risks."Qualitative research is essential to understanding the complex and contingent relationships between employment status, mental health and broader […]

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Over a year after the city of Chelsea gave 2,000 families $400 a month between 2020 and 2021, much of which was spent on groceries, city officials are planning a second round of payments beginning in January.

Chelsea Eats began at the suggestion of city manager Tom Ambrosino in 2020, The Boston Globe reported. Combining city and federal COVID-19 relief funds, along with a grant from the Shah Family Foundation , $4 million was put together to support families unable to receive federal assistance.

“We didn’t promote it as universal basic income,” he said to the Globe. “We promoted it as […]

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Erin Allen : Hello, I’m Erin Allen and this is The Rundown. As expensive as things are these days, a little help each month could go a long way for many of us. And both Cook County and the city of Chicago and several other Illinois cities are beginning to provide that assistance in the form of monthly cash payments directly to residents. Sounds like a fucking dream right? Well, it could be for more than 3,200 Cook County residents selected for what it calls the Cook County Promised Guaranteed Income Pilot. There are several programs like this across […]

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