- 9 years ago Sticky: Welcome to BasicIncome
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Why can we not take Universal Basic Income seriously?
On work, AI and the most important social idea yet to get any real traction.
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Basic income is less radical than you think
A world with basic income is one of less poverty and higher taxes, not utopia or collapse.
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$500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments With a Guaranteed Income
For recipients, it’s a lifeline. For liberal supporters, it shows how expanding government can make a difference. For conservatives, it’s a return to wasteful welfare handouts.
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Can a universal basic income help address homelessness?
Homelessness is an increasing problem across the developed world, and existing policy responses are failing to make an impact. In Australia, for instance, homelessness has increased despite growing investment in (predominantly crisis-oriented) specialist homelessness services.
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Austin becomes the first Texas city to experiment with ‘guaranteed income’
Austin will be the first major Texas city to use local tax dollars to give cash to low-income families to keep them housed as the cost of living skyrockets in the capital city. Under a yearlong, $1 million pilot program that cleared a key Austin City Council vote Thursday, the city will send monthly checks of $1,000 to 85 needy households at risk of losing their homes — an attempt to insulate low-income residents from Austin’s increasingly expensive housing market and prevent more people from becoming homeless.
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Jack Dorsey Backs Bitcoin-powered Universal Basic Income (UBI) Strategy
Over $55 million has been committed by Dorsey’s Start Small project in the United States and abroad to test the feasibility of a universal basic income. Twitter co-founder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey met with Aarika Rhodes, a US congressional candidate, and a full-time elementary school teacher, to examine the ramifications of a Bitcoin (BTC)-powered universal basic income (UBI) approach.
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What we know and what we don't about universal basic income
Trials show how universal basic income performs in both stable and volatile settings but alternative and adjacent policy ideas need serious exploration.
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California becomes the first state to implement a guaranteed income program
California lawmakers approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the nation Thursday, aimed at providing monthly cash payments to low-income young adults who've recently left foster care and pregnant people out of poverty.
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Universal basic income isn't as foreign a concept as you think.
The recent pandemic stimulus checks were a fairly accurate trial run of UBI.
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Wales to launch pilot universal basic income scheme
Campaigners hail ‘huge moment’ as first minister commits to trials of payments to cover living costs
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UBI is dead; long live guaranteed income
The pandemic took the concept of universal basic income out of the hands of Silicon Valley tech bros—and brought it to the people.
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Universal basic income could improve the nation’s mental health
Many people are talking about universal basic income (UBI) these days. Giving everyone a guaranteed income could be the solution to many economic woes. But one factor that hasn’t been mentioned much in discussions of UBI is how it might improve our mental health.
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Los Angeles could become largest US city to trial universal basic income
$1,000-a-month per family pilot program in new budget, following similar schemes in Stockton, Oakland and San Francisco
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$1,000-a-month guaranteed income program coming to Marin County
Marin County will become the second Bay Area community experimenting with a guaranteed income program designed to improve the fortunes of lower-income residents. The Marin program will provide $1,000 monthly grants to 125 low wage-earning women of color who are raising at least one child in Marin County. It is being run not by the county but by the non-profit Marin Community Foundation. However, the Marin County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to contribute $400,000 to the program.
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Oakland will begin paying $500 to low-income families
Oakland joins 40 other cities in experimenting with a universal basic income.
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When a California city gave people a guaranteed income, they worked more — not less
Stockton’s experiment shows what $500 per month in "free money" can do for employment, mental health, and more.
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Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income
A cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to allow councils to run universal basic income trials in response to mass unemployment triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. A letter to the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, signed by more than 500 MPs, lords and local councillors says pilot schemes are urgently needed as the pandemic unleashes widespread economic disruption and drives up redundancies at the fastest rate on record this winter.
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Meet the mayors pushing for guaranteed income in 30 cities across the country
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” the civil rights leader discussed how to best address poverty in the United States. “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income,” he wrote.
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Basic income proposal by influential Suga adviser hard to sell in Japan
The idea of Japan introducing a universal basic income, recently floated by one of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s economic advisers, has caught the eye at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is stirring worries about job security and social inequality.
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Andrew Yang's new non-profit is giving away $500,000 in free cash as a UBI experiment
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang announced Thursday he will give away half a million dollars in a universal basic income pilot project to the residents of a town in New York state.