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The editorial board at The Washington Post rankled some on Sunday night when they published a short essay making the questionable assertion that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a “conservative.” However, in the last year of his life, Dr. King advocated for the very “non-conservative” prospect of a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.

From Quartz : In 1967, the year before he was assassinated, King published a book titled, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? In it, King held up a basic income as a solution to the poverty that afflicted people of all races in […]

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One of the more under-appreciated aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy is that by the end of his career, he had fashioned himself into a crusader against poverty, not just among blacks, but all Americans. In the weeks leading to his assassination, the civil rights leader had been hard at work organizing a new march on Washington known as the “Poor People’s Campaign.” The goal was to erect a tent city on the National Mall, that, as Mark Engler described it for The Nation in 2010, would “dramatize the reality of joblessness and deprivation by bringing those […]

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PARIS (AP) — I am, therefore I’m paid.The radical notion that governments should hand out free money to everyone — rich and poor, those who work and those who don’t — is slowly but surely gaining ground in Europe. Yes, you read that right: a guaranteed monthly living allowance, no strings attached.In France, two of the seven candidates vying to represent the ruling Socialist Party in this year’s presidential election are promising modest but regular stipends to all French adults. A limited test is already underway in Finland, with other experiments planned elsewhere, including in the […]

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The idea King promoted is back in conversation today, but now it’s because of robots. Humans aren’t as necessary as they once were for carrying out basic tasks, manual and otherwise . Robots are doing more and more of those jobs, threatening to displace large numbers of workers and prompting experts from economists to Elon Musk to ask whether now is the time to implement a universal basic income, a social safety net that would provide unconditional cash payments to everyone.

While the specifics of the debate have changed—automation is now the force driving it —the debate itself isn’t a […]

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PARIS — I am, therefore I’m paid.

The radical notion that governments should hand out free money to everyone — rich and poor, those who work and those who don’t — is slowly but surely gaining ground in Europe. Yes, you read that right: a guaranteed monthly living allowance, no strings attached.

In France, two of the seven candidates vying to represent the ruling Socialist Party in this year’s presidential election are promising modest but regular stipends to all French adults. A limited test is already underway in Finland, with other experiments planned elsewhere, including in the United States.Called "universal income" […]

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Say the name "Martin Luther King, Jr" (MLK) and most people will instantly think "American civil rights hero".

With good reason – King’s most well-known legacy comes from his role as leader in the civil rights movement, preacher of nonviolent resistance, and Nobel Peace prizewinner. But most people don’t know that for MLK, black Americans’ struggle for civil rights was inseparable from the fight against economic inequality in the US. And his answer to that inequality was a policy which activists are still calling for today: universal basic income. King the reformer

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism," […]

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Councilors of the small Ontario town of Smiths Falls voted on December 19 last year to reject participation in its province’s basic income pilot , to the objection of residents and the town’s mayor. A petition requesting a re-vote is currently circulating online. The story begins, however, in 2008.

That year The Hershey Company shuttered its Canada operations, at the time based in Smiths Falls, largely for cheaper Mexico-based labor. This exit of the area’s biggest customer precipitated the same by other businesses, and although the ensuing purge of jobs merely reflected a manufacturing decline already underway in the province, […]

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Subject: –Previous Message– : So the govt would be everyone’s boss? And I’m : pretty sure this income would have strings : attached; that for instance you couldn’t : just toddle off and buy shares or gold with : your monthly payments. : : Also on the subject, this (latter segment of : which is included below)article by Charles : Hugh-Smith: : : : https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-flaws-in-basic-income-for-everyone.html : : "…if much of your wage is being : levied to support people who don’t work, : what’s the motivation for working at all? : Why not join the work-free crowd? : And […]

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Paying everyone a small amount each month no matter what could make a big difference for freelancers and entrepreneurs. On January 1 Finland became the first country in history to launch a large-scale universal basic income trial . The two-year trial selected 2,000 unemployed Finnish citizens and will pay them €560 ($587) each month whether or not they find a job during the trial . There are also no requirements for reporting how they spend the money. The experiment aims to see if large-scale UBI programs could actually help boost employment and spur the economy by providing people with […]

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The latest trend in socialism is UBI — or universal basic income. The policy requires that citizens receive income from the government, no questions asked. They don’t need to work, prove that they’re seeking work, or have any desire to work. Simply by existing, individuals will get a taxpayer-funded paycheck in the mail.

While this sounds like a fantasy of the far-far-left, at least one major country seems to be considering the policy for its unemployed citizens. Unsurprisingly, the country is part of the ever-more-socialist European Union.

See the details of Finland’s universal basic income experiment on the next page: […]

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