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Universal Basic Income has been a ‘lifesaver’ to families during coronavirus pandemic: California mayor
Universal basic income (UBI) has been a “lifesaver” for households participating in UBI pilot programs, Mayor Michael Tubbs told Yahoo Finance. The Stockton, Calif. mayor is the founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, a program that provides $500 a month to families in dozens of cities around the United States and was originally slated to end in July. The program recently received a sizable boost after Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey donated $15 million to the initiative.
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Pope Francis in new book says pandemic should spur governments to permanently implement UBI
The pope outlines several new programs such Universal Basic Income to respond to unprecedented times as a result of COVID. In a wide-ranging book-length interview, Pope Francis speaks publicly for the first time about the persecution of the Uighurs in China, voices his support for the racial justice protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, speaks against those protesting coronavirus restrictions and calls for a universal basic income.
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Germany is beginning a universal basic income trial with individuals getting $1,400 a month for 3 years
Germany is about to become the latest country to trial a universal basic income after 1,500 people signed up to a three-year experiment into how it affects the economy and the wellbeing of recipients. As part of the study, 120 individuals will receive the equivalent of $1,430 a month for 3 years, which is just above Germany's poverty line, with their life outcomes compared to another group of 1,380 people who will not receive the payments.
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Universal Basic Income and the Capitalist Production of Consciousness
We cannot much longer ignore the discomforting truth that the economies we’ve inherited from the twentieth century are poorly designed for the production of human beings. As digital technologies weave economic logic deeper into the temporal fabric of everyday life, we’re debasing economic society’s most complex, valuable, and neglected production: human consciousness.
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Los Angeles, Atlanta Among Cities Joining Coalition To Test Universal Basic Income
Each mayor has committed to exploring the idea of guaranteed income in their cities.
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Canada’s forgotten universal basic income experiment
Evelyn Forget was a psychology student in Toronto in 1974 when she first heard about a ground-breaking social experiment that had just begun in the rural Canadian community of Dauphin, Manitoba.
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Forget UBI, says an economist: It's time for universal basic jobs
Pavlina Tcherneva talks about "The Case for a Job Guarantee," and how public-sector work can pull us out of crises both immediate and long-term.
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Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment. Finland ran a two-year universal basic income study in 2017 and 2018, during which the government gave 2000 unemployed people aged between 25 and 58 monthly payments with no strings attached.
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Spain to become first country in Europe to roll out a universal basic income
Government plans to keep payments ‘a permanent instrument’ after pandemic is over
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A universal basic income could help counter COVID-19's economic damage
"Be fast and have no regrets." That was the defining quote from the March 13 COVID-19 briefing at the World Health Organization, spoken by Dr. Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization (WHO) executive director of health emergencies. "Speed trumps perfection," he added. "The greatest error is not to move."
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Over 170 MPs and Lords call for universal basic income during coronavirus pandemic
Over 170 MPs and peers have urged the government to introduce a universal basic income to "give everyone the financial support they need to provide for themselves and their families" during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to chancellor Rishi Sunak the parliamentarians say that the plan to pay every adult a flat, unconditional sum of money each week for the duration of the crisis is a "practical, not ideological" proposal.
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Andrew Yang says the coronavirus outbreak shows why we need basic income
Andrew Yang says a Universal Basic Income program would greatly help individuals and their communities during the coronavirus outbreak.
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People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money from the provincial government with no-strings attached.
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How a VAT could tax the rich and pay for universal basic income
The Congressional Budget Office just projected a series of $1 trillion budget deficits—as far as the eye can see. Narrowing that deficit will require not only spending reductions and economic growth but also new taxes. One solution that I’ve laid out in a new Hamilton Project paper, “Raising Revenue with a Progressive Value-Added Tax,” is a 10 percent Value-Added Tax (VAT) combined with a universal basic income (UBI)—effectively a cash payment to every US household.
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Germany just guaranteed unemployed citizens around $330 per month indefinitely. The policy looks a lot like basic income.
Germany's supreme court recently ruled that an old policy that suspended payments if individuals didn't actively search for work was unconstitutional.
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In California, Stockton Is Running Its Own Experiment With A Universal Basic Income
As the Democratic debate kicks off on Wednesday, one town in California is experimenting with a version of universal income that is espoused by candidate Andrew Yang.
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Stockton Residents Who Received $500 a Month in Basic Income Experiment Spent Money on Food, Clothing and Bills
The first data from an experiment in a California city where needy people get $500 a month from the government shows they spend most of it on things such as food, clothing and utility bills. The 18-month, privately funded program started in February and involves 125 people in Stockton. It is one of the few experiments testing the concept of “universal basic income,” an old idea getting new attention from Democrats seeking the 2020 presidential nomination.
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$500 a month for free: Data shows how people spent the money
The first data from an experiment in a California city where needy people get $500 a month from the government shows they spend most of it on things such as food, clothing and utility bills. It is one of the few experiments testing the concept of “universal basic income,” an old idea getting new attention
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Andrew Yang will give a $12,000 basic income to a random Twitter follower
The presidential hopeful’s tacky yet effective method of promoting universal basic income.
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We've declared a climate emergency – here's what universal basic income could do to help the planet
The first step is admitting we have a problem, but what should come next to protect the planet?