Peter Barnes, With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to save our middle class when jobs don’t pay enough,...
Book review: Peter Barnes, With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to save our middle class when jobs don’t pay enough
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Oakland, California: Income For All: A Basic Right? A conversation with author Peter Barnes on May 18
Peter Barnes will be speaking in Oakland on May 18th, 2015, organized by the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
Peter Barnes, “Alaska Bolstered Its Economy and Curbed Inequality—By Paying Everyone Thousands in Oil Dividends Every Year”
Peter Barnes, “Alaska Bolstered Its Economy and Curbed Inequality—By Paying Everyone Thousands in Oil Dividends...
Chris Oestereich, “With Liberty and Dividends for All: An interview with Peter Barnes”
Peter Barnes wants equal income for common wealth, and Oestereich reviews Barnes’s book and interviews him.
Peter Barnes, “Why you have the right to a $5K dividend from Uncle Sam.”
SUMMARY: Oil tax revenue funds Alaska’s Permanent Fund, which distributes dividends equally to state residents. Peter...
United States: The National Academy of Social Insurance investigates the implementation of basic income
The National Academy of Social Insurance recently (April 2019) published a paper where the idea of implementing a...
United States: The Social Wealth Fund plan already exists
There is a plan for distributing dividends, unconditionally, for all Americans. It has been coined as the Social...
USA: David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, says that a “Guaranteed Income” would be a massive boon for the US economy
David Simon. Credit to: Flickr Whilst talking about his new HBO show ‘The Deuce’, David Simon, creator of the...
UNITED STATES: Hillary Clinton regrets not proposing Basic Income during her 2016 campaign
Hillary Clinton just released a new memoir, What Happened, about her 2016 campaign for US President. In the memoir,...
US: Boston Review Publishes Forum on Basic Income
The American political and literary magazine published the forum as its spring 2017 print edition.
World premiere of Basic Income documentary Free Lunch Society
A new documentary on basic income — Free Lunch Society by Austrian director Christian Tod — premiered in Copenhagen’s Bremen Theatre on March 20, 2017, to a crowd numbering in the hundreds.
US: Prominent Republicans call for carbon tax and dividend
A group of prominent Republicans has released a proposal for a carbon tax and dividend as an alternative to the Obama administration’s regulation-based approach to mitigating climate change.
VIDEO: Economist James Boyce on Basic Income, Carbon Tax and Dividend
James K. Boyce, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, defends a universal basic income of $200 per month, funded in part by taxes or fees on carbon emissions and financial transactions.
An American basic income: how do we get there?
A three-step plan of action to make basic income in the United States a reality.
WASHINGTON, DC, USA: Basic Income Action Launch Party, 17 September 2015, 7pm – 9pm
Join fellow D.C. Basic Income advocates for an evening of drinks and lively discussion about a universal income --...
AUDIO: City Hall, “Has the Time Come for Universal Basic Income?”
From their website: “Universal basic income—the idea that people should be paid simply for being alive—is gaining...
New York, NY: Panel discussion, “Has the Time Come for Universal Basic Income?” May 26, 2015
A Panel discussion entitled, "Has the Time Come for Universal Basic Income?" will take place at Civic Hall, New York,...
OPINION: Notes of Discussions in the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress of 2015
(This article originally appeared on Medium) Between the 26th of February and the 1st of March, 2015, and only with...
Brooklyn, NY: Report from the meeting to create a political movement for basic income
Thirty-one people signed the attendance sheet at the first meeting of group of people attempting to start a political...
New York, NY: The Basic Income Guarantee movement will have events in three boroughs on the last weekend in February
The Basic Income Guarantee is a simple idea: income doesn’t need to start at zero. A good functioning society can...