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The New York Times bestseller from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, this thought-provoking and prescient call-to-action outlines the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income (UBI), to stabilize our economy amid rapid technological change and automation. The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. Not in the distant future–now. One recent estimate predicts 45 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next twelve years–jobs that won’t be replaced. In a future marked by restlessness and chronic unemployment, what will happen to American society?

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So far trialed in Europe, the US, and a few other countries, a universal basic income (UBI) is basically a guarantee from the government that everyone gets a minimum income (meant to cover the basic cost of living). Now, the UK wants to have a go at it, specifically in the port city of Hull. The UK city of Hull. Credit Wikipedia Commons A group of councilors from different parties backed the idea of giving every adult in Hull a sum that would range between 50 and 100 pounds per week regardless of their income. Those who currently get […]

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The BIG Library: Books About Basic Income. Last Updated: May 1, 2019 . books of fiction that include basic income can be found at the end of this list. . Universal Basic Income and the . reboobyo.duckdns.org . Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World For a simple, plain-English, non-stuffy introduction, I rather like this: The Case for a Basic Income Perhaps I’m a little biased, however, because I wrote it! Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can […]

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The BIG Library: Books About Basic Income. Last Updated: May 1, 2019 . books of fiction that include basic income can be found at the end of this list. . Universal Basic Income and the . Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World nekiifxu.duckdns.org . Basic income, also called universal basic income (UBI), citizen’s income, citizen’s basic income in the United Kingdom, basic income guarantee in the United States and Canada, or basic living […]

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There is a fear that a disproportionate part of Universal Basic Income would be paid to housing. Under current circumstances, a large portion of the income is paid to rent. A person UK in 2019, if receiving benefits only, in many cases is paying over fifty percent of their income for housing. If UBI was to come into effect, it is possible the same problem would occur. On the minimum wage in the UK (currently £8.21 per hour), over 43 percent of the income of a person living in a city will go to renting a single […]

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Ludwig Hilberseimer, Bauhaus 3-2, 1929 Skeptics of guaranteed income tend to worry about the policy’s inflationary effects; absent rent regulation, for instance, one might expect housing costs to rise in proportion to the increase in disposable income generated by the policy. In a new working paper supported by JFI, “ Universal Basic Income and the City ,” Khalil Esmkhani, Jack Favilukis and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh explore the effects of a UBI implemented at the city-level in New York City. The paper finds that, when financed through a progressive income tax, a UBI increases general welfare and—perhaps most notably—does not […]

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One year on: Finland’s universal basic income experiment

Universal basic income – The Washington Post The Alaska Permanent Fund is one of the closest examples of functional universal basic income in place today. It ensures every resident of that state gets a fixed income from state oil revenues, and reached a record payout of more than $2,000 per person in 2015 (in 2017, every Alaskan received $1,100).The programs of the 1970s, too, foundered on the shoals of politics. When a conservative government came to power […]

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