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Local health unit makes case for basic income guarantee at Smiths Falls town council. Dr. Paula Stewart of the Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit presents alongside health unit manager, Elaine Murkin, about the potential public health and social benefits a basic income guarantee could have on Smiths Falls at council’s committee of the whole meeting on Jan. 9, 2017.

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In a heated debate about whether or not Smiths Falls should play host to the province’s basic income pilot, The Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit’s voice is clear — go for it.The health […]

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The country is trialling a monthly basic income of £487 with 2,000 citizens One of the greatest political challenges in the 21st century is coming up with a welfare system which is both effective and fair. Recipients and non-recipients of benefits payments are both quick to point out apparent deficiencies in the status quo – as well as problems with any potential alternatives. But some countries are clearly ready for change.

As of 1 January 2017, Finland became the first European country to implement a plan whereby unemployed citizens receive a basic monthly income. Created by the government agency responsible […]

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Photo: AFP A joint study conducted by Oxford University and the Oxford Martin school says 47% of the jobs in the US are at risk of being automated within the next 20 years. In interviews during the latter half of 2016, President Barack Obama was quizzed on the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). He responded by saying that the concept of UBI is one that will be debated for decades to come as computer systems get ever more efficient, thereby causing job losses all over the world. He did not shy away from the fact that it will […]

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NEW YEAR, NEW INCOME

It looks like 2,000 citizens in Finland will welcome the new year with outstretched arms. These Finns are the lucky recipients of a guaranteed income beginning this year, as the country’s government finally rolls out its universal basic income (UBI) trial run. UBI is a potential source of income that could one day be available to all adult citizens, regardless of income, wealth, or employment status.

This pioneering UBI program was launched by the federal social security institution, Kela . It will give out €560 ($587) a month, tax free, to 2,000 Finns that were randomly […]

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One of the greatest political challenges in the 21st century is coming up with a welfare system which is both effective and fair. Recipients and non-recipients of benefits payments are both quick to point out apparent deficiencies in the status quo – as well as problems with any potential alternatives. But some countries are clearly ready for change.

As of January 1 2017, Finland became the first European country to implement a plan whereby unemployed citizens receive a basic monthly income. Created by the government agency responsible for Finnish social security benefits ( KELA ), it will be run as […]

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A new plan. Shutterstock One of the greatest political challenges in the 21st century is coming up with a welfare system which is both effective and fair. Recipients and non-recipients of benefits payments are both quick to point out apparent deficiencies in the status quo – as well as problems with any potential alternatives. But some countries are clearly ready for change.

As of January 1 2017, Finland became the first European country to implement a plan whereby unemployed citizens receive a basic monthly income. Created by the government agency responsible for Finnish social security benefits ( KELA ), it […]

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Picture: Ian Georgeson POLITICAL turmoil unleashed by acute economic uncertainty is converting sceptics to the case for a Universal Basic Income, writes Dani Garavelli

When economist Guy Standing first advocated a universal basic income (UBI) – a regular unconditional sum paid to all adults regardless of employment status – he was considered quixotic (where quixotic is a synonym for “a crackpot”). When his book The Precariat – which identified an emerging class of people whose lives were diminished by short-term and zero hours contracts – was published in 2011, the mainstream cocked an ear, but, politically, UBI remained […]

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Yeah, I’ve heard this one before. So, we tax the rich to pay for the poor. What happens when that money dries up? I can’t see people of wealth or corporations wanting to put forth the effort to stay wealthy if all that will happen is having that wealth taken away from them. Where does the money come from then? Do the 1% wealthiest people and corporations have enough money to guarantee a universal basic income? I don’t think the math supports the claim, no matter how much […]

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