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In 2016 every Alaskan resident received a check for $1,022 as part of the Alaska Permanent Fund. Since 1976 permanent citizens are awarded a small portion of the state’s $55 billion oil fund. As part of an agreement with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, legislators created a constitutional amendment to ensure that residents profit from the black liquid, as well as give them a financial cushion for when the reserves are inevitably tapped.

Not all governing bodies are so generous, and this one is not without controversy. Last year the dividend was an estimated $2,052 until Governor Bill Walker chopped it […]

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The reason many people on the left are excited about proposals such as universal basic income is that they acknowledges economic inequality and its social consequences. However, a closer look at how UBI is expected to work reveals that it is intended to provide political cover for the elimination of social programs and the privatization of social services. The Liberal Party’s resolution is no exception. Calling for “Savings in health, justice, education and social welfare as well as the building of self-reliant, taxpaying citizen,” clearly means social cuts and privatization.

UBI has been endorsed by neoliberal economists for a long […]

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Most disabled people are poor:

Disabled people are among the poorest people in any given society.

Within this group, people labeled with intellectual disabilities tend to be even poorer.This means that there is a direct relationship between intellectual disability and poverty.– copy of the presentation by Adele Furrie giving the stats on poverty – Most disabled people do not work. Why not? Many disabled people would like to work , but they face discrimination that prevents them from finding a job. Some disabled people cannot work Whatever the reason, most disabled people are unemployed.Instead of receiving a work income, […]

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Psychologists for Social Change , a UK-based network of applied psychologists, academics, therapists and psychology graduates, publishes reports on topics at the intersection of psychology and public policy, such as the psychological impact of austerity policies and, now, basic income.

A briefing paper published in March 2017 examines the potential psychological effects of a universal basic income (described therein as “a regular, non-means tested, guaranteed income, delivered to every citizen of and beyond working age”) and offers recommendations for further research.

According to the report, there is evidence to suggest that basic income could increase five important psychological indicators: agency, security, […]

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In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the “War on Poverty.” The next year, the percentage of Americans living under that label was 17.3. Today, depending on how it is measured, poverty stands at 14.3%, or with transfer payments taken into account, 6.5%(1). On the surface, those numbers appear to be a resounding mark of triumph in the war declared by John F. Kennedy’s successor, but when the numbers are broken down, the picture is far less commendable.

The total costs of the five programs, which include the Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Security Insurance, […]

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we’re looking for a research manager to oversee operations for the larger-scale study. this person will help shape the final research design and contribute extensively to the analysis and reporting. we also filmed a discussion about basic income with craig cannon.

AEI fellow James Pethokoukis tells us why a Universal Basic Income isn’t an immediate priority.Should you get […]

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Jim Wilson/The New York Times The Trump administration may not believe that automation threatens today’s American workforce, but try telling that to a travel agent or a truck driver or a factory worker or an accountant. One recent study found that for every one robot introduced to the workforce, six related human jobs disappear. But those six humans still need to get by.

That’s why many Silicon Valley leaders, even as they innovate entire industries and livelihoods out of existence, have started gravitating toward a not-so-new concept: basic income. Under the idea, the government would provide every citizen with a […]

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Getty Images The idea that every citizen should have an unconditional monthly income is so old that 18th Century philosopher and political activist Thomas Paine once proposed it.

It’s also an idea that many still dismiss as hopelessly utopian. Indeed, 75% of Swiss voters rejected it in a referendum last year.

However, it’s increasingly a model that many of the world’s best brains are proposing as we face losing more and more jobs to AI and robotics. ( http://theqstn.com/questions/212685/in-the-smart-city-what-do-people-actually-work-for-if-everything-is-automated )Finland is currently carrying out a two-year Universal Basic Income (UBI) trial – becoming the first European country to pay its unemployed […]

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From Finland to India, governments are sizing up the potential benefits of a single payment for all.

Universal basic income is the idea that everyone, regardless of income or work, receives a periodic flat-rate cash payment from a public institution. Basically, it is free money for all, with no strings attached, except for the fact that the government has to foot the bill. While it may seem like a radical idea with questions surging in regard to cost, inflation and whether people would quit work in favor of playing videogames, an increasing number of governments are seeing it an […]

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On a cold January day, the room of about 60 people was buzzing towards the end of Karl Widerquist’s talk on Universal Basic Income: The Cornerstone of a Just Society at the SSM/MMU event on January 30 th 2017. Later that same week World Basic Income http://www.worldbasicincome.org.uk/ held its first conference in Salford and the themes of social justice, freedom and poverty alleviation were all discussed again, taking up issues of distributive justice, a return to the commons and the need to have a world-wide system. Karl Widerquist and SSM’s Judith Emanuel and Carolyn Kagan Karl answered, amongst other […]

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