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US: Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan invites junior scholars to workshop on Basic Income

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University of Michigan in Autumn. Credit to: Flickr.   Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, in collaboration with the Stanford Basic Income Lab and with support from the Economic Security Project, are inviting applications to participate in a three-day workshop from May 18th – 20th 2018, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   The workshop will provide opportunities to learn about

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MAN CHOOSES PRISON OVER POVERTY (from 2006)

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This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in September 2006.   I was struck by a report in the Associated Press reported on October 12th that a 63-year-old Ohio man intentionally had himself convicted of bank robbery. Timothy J. Bowers sought a three-year prison sentence to bridge the gap until he becomes eligible for full Social Security benefits.

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US: Undoing poverty’s negative effect on brain development with cash transfers

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Kimberly G. Noble, associate professor of neuroscience and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, has published an article in Nature which summarizes her research background and an upcoming experiment into brain development and poverty. Noble asks whether poverty may affect the development, “the size, shape, and functioning,” of a child’s brain, and whether “a cash stipend to parents” would prevent

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