In Russia, as in many other countries, social benefits do not always reach those who need them. The problem has existed for a long time, and during the pandemic the number of poor people has only increased. In an article on 11 February 2021 in Forbes Russia "A New...
The following is my address, "The Power to Say No and American Social Policy," to a conference entitled, "Poverty in America: A Range of Critical Perspectives on Its Causes, Effects, and Possible Solutions." The conference was held at Florida State University on March...
By Jason Burke Murphy Andrew Yang's interview with Virgil Texas on the podcast Chapo Trap House helps to answer a lot of questions that keep coming up as his candidacy is debated. After a little while Virgil brings up concerns that one often encounters in debate...
On the right: Anna Fowler (director of health & social development); on the left: Qajaq Robinson (lawyer, commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report), in 2016. Picture credit to: The Globe and Mail, Canada....
GiveDirectly formed a $30 million fund to benefit 20,000 Kenyans in the most important and thorough study about UBI in history
A public sector job offer at minimum wage, combined with UBI of could raise all households above poverty when combined with improved disability and housing benefits.
Philip Alston. Picture credit to: BBC News Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, was in the UK last November 2018, presenting his findings on this press conference. It seems that the UK, the 5th world economy in terms of GDP, drags...
Picture credit to: Opportunity for All (Government of Canada) Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development for the Canadian Federal Government, has launched a call for applications to assemble a so-called National Advisory Council on...
In her recent work Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World (W.H. Allen), Atlantic writer Annie Lowrey offers a new account of the universal basic income (UBI) rooted in her experience as a global...
Picture credit to: Big Think. On the 12th of July 2018, Trump's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released the report "Expanding Work Requirements in Non-Cash Welfare Programs", in response to an executive order made in April 2018 on reducing poverty in America. The...
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...
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...
A case for a modest (partial) basic income plus a local job offer.
The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex has released the paper as part of its EUROMOD working paper series.
Universal Basic Income is a radically different concept—nobody has to apply, prove their worth, or fill out complicated forms.
Panel on new UN report on basic income by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
There was once a town in Canada that essentially eliminated poverty, and everyone seemed to forget. One filmmaker is doing his best to shine a bright light on the research into this town.
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...
University of Bouaké Economist Bédia François Aka conducts simulations of the effect of a basic income on poverty and inequality in Côte d’Ivoire.
In a Universal Basic Income system, incentives are always aligned for the individual to accept a raise or to work an additional hour because it will always put more money in their pocket.