SUMMARY: According to this article, UK government proposal to 25 hours a week free childcare is to be welcomed. But it...
Fiona Ranford, “Care work is a 24 hour a day job, Mr Balls, and should be paid as such.”
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Minneapolis, MN, US: Workshop on basic income and care-work at Democracy Convention
The workshop “seeks to explore how a re-valuing of care-work can solidify the vision of a new economic and societal system, where caring for self, each other, and the planet is the primary focus.”
BUFFALO, NY, US: Basic income and care-centered economy workshop, July 10
From July 8-10, hundreds of progressive activists will convene in Buffalo, NY, for CommonBound. Among its many workshops, the conference will include one on basic income: Basic Income as a First Step Toward a Care-Centered Economy, led by Liane Gale and Ann Withorn,
BERLIN, Germany: “Workshop Grundeinkommen auf der Aktionskonferenz Care Revolution [Basic Income Workshop on the Action Conference Care Revolution]”, March 15 2014
[Michael Millar] Event: “Workshop Grundeinkommen auf der Aktionskonferenz Care Revolution [Basic Income Workshop on...
Resolution passed by Basic Income Earth Network in its Executive Committee meeting held on December 16th, 2021
“The Executive Committee of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) which is a global network of social scientists and...
Book Review: Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
Dr. James Chamberlain, of Mississippi State University's Department of Political Science and Public Administration,...
United States: Elizabeth Warren pushes for a universal child care policy in her presidential candidacy program
Elizabeth Warren. Picture credit to: Vox Childcare in America is amongst the highest in the world. For...
United States: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets to the point of what it means to be “unwilling to work”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Picture credit to: The Cut. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) tabled a Resolution on the United...
Book Snapshot: Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
Dr. James Chamberlain, of Mississippi State University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration,...
Annie Lowrey: New book “Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World”
In her recent work Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake...
Leonid Bershidsky: “Obama and Bezos could make basic income work”
Jeff Bezos. Picture credit to: Evening Standard Leonid Bershidsky, in this article, posted on the 18th of July, says...
Why Welfare Doesn’t Work: And What We Should Do Instead
Democrats and Republicans don’t see eye to eye very often, but they can safely agree on one point: welfare doesn’t work. We must redesign this entire system. In the most prosperous nation in the world, it is ludicrous that children are growing up in the kind of deprivation we normally associate with developing countries.
Review of “The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies.” (from 2014)
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in June 2014. This book was recommended to me a...
India Network for Basic Income releases YouTube videos
The India Network for Basic Income recently released two new YouTube videos aiming to highlight issues around...
The Future of Jobs: Working on Being Human
It is becoming normal to talk about robots replacing human labor, but we still have not yet acknowledged the magnitude of this change.
Obamacare’s model can solve basic income’s cost issue
One area basic income advocates need to emphasize more is this clawback of basic income.
US: Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan invites junior scholars to workshop on Basic Income
University of Michigan in Autumn. Credit to: Flickr. Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, in...
UBI’s Impact on Work Culture: Not a Question for the Experimenters
My interest in basic income stemmed from the conjecture that such a policy could help to ignite a progression away...
US: Chris Hughes, co-chair of the Economic Security Project (ESP), favours means tested guaranteed income for working poor over UBI in new book
In a July 2017 televised Town Hall with KCET, Economic Security Project co-chairs Chris Hughes and Natalie Foster were...
FATHER OF “WORKFARE” IN THE U.S. ENDORSES BIG IN IRAQ (from 2007)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in April 2007. Republican Presidential Candidate...