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In this Wednesday Aug. 14, 2019, file photo Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs talks during an interview in Stockton, Calif. Mayors across the country are committing to give cash to low-income families with no restrictions on how they can spend it. It’s part of a growing movement to establish a guaranteed minimum income as a way to combat poverty and systemic racism. Tubbs, launched one of the country’s first guaranteed income programs last year with the help of private donations. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) For a growing cadre of mayors across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed more than […]

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The health unit is joining several expert and community groups who are asking for the federal government to create a basic income for all Canadians.

HURON/PERTH – The Huron Perth Public Health Board of Health is calling for Canada to create a basic income

They are joining several experts and community groups in Canada who are asking for this. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that even a small loss of income can have a big impact on people’s ability to meet basic needs.Basic income is payment made directly to people with low income, whether or not they work for pay. It […]

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The pandemic has brought into focus the social contract between income and contribution which can underpin a solidaristic welfare state. Mary Murphy The Covid-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the future shape and function of our welfare architecture. It has exposed the impacts of decades of privatisation and cuts to public services in market-liberal welfare states, while the more universal Nordic welfare regimes have fared best through the crisis.

Temporary responses offer a glimpse of the changes that may be to come. In many states the balance has swung from the compensatory, enabling, and regulatory dimensions of welfare back towards […]

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Jessie Golem knows the stigma of poverty. She’s been called a leech and parasite. She’s heard more times than she can count, “Go get a job.”

In fact, she always had multiple jobs. But piano lessons, gigs in dog walking, and a budding photography business – a 60-to-80-hour weekly hustle – left her just enough to pay her rent in Hamilton.

It wasn’t until she became part of a pilot program in Ontario, receiving a basic income supplement of $1,400 a month, that her working life finally came together. “It was really awesome watching my photography business grow,” she says. “I […]

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Could there become a time when all our basic needs are paid for by the government? That’s the question many economists and politicians around the world are starting to explore. SUBMITTED PHOTO RYAN MacRAE

Canada has been well overdue for an expansion of its social security. According to the most recent (pre-pandemic) statistics from Statistics Canada, 3.2 million Canadians still live below the national poverty line.

The federal Liberals’ anti-poverty strategy will aim to cut this number in half by 2030, but this is simply too low of a bar.The Latin American Mission Program has consistently called for the complete […]

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BOSTON (CBS) – Through speeches, prayer and personal testimonies, a small rally was held on the Boston Common on Saturday to voice support for Universal Basic Income. “Every single American citizen would receive a minimum income per month, so anywhere from $500 or $2000, depending on who you ask. And essentially, the point is that everyone should be guaranteed an economic floor,” said Melissa Lin of the State Lead Humanities First Collective about Universal Basic Income.

A growing number of mayors in cities across the country, including Oakland, say they support giving cash to low-income families with no spending […]

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When the idyllic upstate city of Hudson, New York, launches its basic-income pilot program in late September, it will become one of the smallest U.S. cities to embrace a policy once seen as far-fetched or radical.

“Basic-income” programs — designed to dole out direct cash payments to large swaths of people, no strings attached — were, until earlier this year, largely the realm of Washington, D.C., policy wonks and West Coast futurists.

But amid the pandemic and a global recession, both basic income and a basket of related policies have gained unprecedented momentum, surfacing everywhere from Capitol Hill to community Zoom […]

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#BasicIncomeMarch202, #NYC (Image by @trickleupnyc social media) Ruth Bader Ginsberg wrote, “Time is on the side of change.” Yesterday, still without knowing of RBG’s death, I logged in to the online event to celebrate the progress of the UBI campaign in the USA and the world. When the host rendered tribute to RBG, it sounded common sense to me. Justice Ginsberg not only brought up to the court the most important cases in matters of gender discrimination but also handed down her decisions and dissents looking for the defense of civil rights.

With the death of Justice Ginsberg and facing […]

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Canada has been talking about basic income for nearly 50 years.

Blair Gable / reuters Speaker of the House of Commons Liberal Ontario MP Anthony Rota holds a copy of the throne speech in the Senate in Ottawa on Dec. 5, 2019.
OTTAWA — Despite the Liberal caucus’ push, and the prime minister saying the throne speech would focus on closing the gaps and caring for Canada’s most vulnerable, a guaranteed basic income won’t be the landmark of the government’s agenda Wednesday. The throne speech will neither explicitly endorse nor close the door on basic income, two officials told HuffPost […]

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