Poverty-traps and pay-gaps: why (single) mothers need basic income
Universal Basic Income is a radically different concept—nobody has to apply, prove their worth, or fill out complicated forms.
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND: Universal Basic Income, A Woman’s Perspective
A feminist perspective on basic income, featuring speakers Annie Miller (Citizens Basic Income Network Scotland), Jen Broadhurst (Glasgow Calladonian University), and Zara Kitson (Scottish Greens).
» Read moreOnline Listening Session: “Women and Their Economic Situation”
Online listening session: “Women and Their Economic Situation: How does the economy work for women? How does it not? How does an economic system look like that cares for women, their families and their communities?”
» Read moreIf Citizen’s Income is the Answer, What is the Question?
The simple question, alluded to in the title of this article, is: ‘How do we end the wages system?’ That raises further questions – ‘Why end the wage system? What is wrong with it?’ or the fundamental question: ‘What is the wages system?’
» Read moreVIDEO: 10 Caregiver Reasons for a Basic Income
For more than 20 years, Karen Patrick has been a full-time caregiver for an adult daughter with multiple disabilities. When she learned about the idea of a basic income guarantee, Karen saw immediately that it would greatly improve the situations of herself and other family caregivers. Karen moderates a Facebook group Caregivers for a Basic Income and, at the request of
» Read moreThinking about Basic Income on International Women’s Day
By Liane Gale and Ann Withorn for the Basic Income Woman Action Group (BIWAG) Since 1909, International Women’s Day has been a day for recognizing women’s economic, political and social achievements. Yet over the past century, March 8 Women’s Day celebrations have revealed tensions between feminists, socialists and anarchists about the meaning of women’s roles in society. Feminists saw full
» Read moreCANADA: Ruling Party’s Women’s Commission calls resolution for UBI experiment
The women’s wing of the newly ruling liberal party in Canada just passed a motion in favor of basic income pilots.
» Read moreYvonne Roberts, “Why Women Need a Stronger Voice in Politics”
Yvonne Roberts argues that ‘the unthinkable’ would not become ‘the eminently reasonable’ unless ‘female electoral disengagement’ would stop. She includes BIG along with free universal childcare, and so on, in her list of ‘the unthinkable’. Yvonne Roberts, “Why Women Need a Stronger Voice in Politics”, the Guardian, 5 April.
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