[Craig Axford]
Basic Income European Citizens' Initiative
Every morning at around 8 a.m., basic income guarantee campaigners in Europe receive an update from the European Commission on the number of signatures gathered in each country in support of the European Citizens’ Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income. As of this writing with about 206 days to go, just over 17.2% of the required signatures have been gathered. Use the link provided to follow the European campaign’s progress.
Basic Income 2013 EU Signature Counter, European Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income
About Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist has written 983 articles.
Karl Widerquist is an Associate Professor of political philosophy at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University, specializing in distributive justice—the ethics of who has what. Much of his work involves Universal Basic Income (UBI). He is a co-founder of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG). He served as co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) for 7 years, and now serves as vice-chair. He was the Editor of the USBIG NewsFlash for 15 years and of the BIEN NewsFlash for 4 years. He is a cofounder of BIEN’s news website, Basic Income News, the main source of just-the-facts reporting on UBI worldwide. He is a cofounder and editor of the journal Basic Income Studies, the only academic journal devoted to research on UBI.
Widerquist has published several books and many articles on UBI both in academic journals and in the popular media. He has appeared on or been quoted by many major media outlets, such as NPR’s On Point, NPR’s Marketplace, PRI’s the World, CNBC, Al-Jazeera, 538, Vice, Dissent, the New York Times, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the Atlantic Monthly, which called him “a leader of the worldwide basic income movement.”
Widerquist holds two doctorates—one in Political Theory form Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He has published seven books, including Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press 2017, coauthored by Grant S. McCall) and Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). He has published more than a twenty scholarly articles and book chapters.
Most Karl Widerquist’s writing is available on his “Selected Works” website (works.bepress.com/widerquist/). More information about him is available on his BIEN profile and on Wikipedia. He writes the blog "the Indepentarian" for Basic Income News.
some relief of stress every month for everyone, a more human earth would be nice
Some have far too much and many have far too less. Let’s make a world where everybody has enough to make a decent living!
Quiero vivir en Italy como puedo hacer porfavor necesito ayuda
I like the basic idea.Back in 1961 I came across what was left of a circa 1920s political part called Social Credit Later i learned that the Social Credit Party was repeatedly reelected to govern Alberta, a Province of Canada.They has a system of donating money from oil revenues to every resident of Alberta. The amount donated was proportional to how long the individual had been a resident of Alberta. Having mentioned this a few times over these many years my conclusion was that antipathy to the idea of a handout was much reduced on learning about the proportionality factor.
tienen demasiado menos. ¡Hagamos un mundo donde todos tengan lo suficiente para ganarse la vida dignamente!Me gusta la idea básica. En 1961 me encontré con lo que quedaba de una parte política de alrededor de la década de 1920 llamada Crédito social. Más tarde supe que el Partido de crédito social fue reelegido repetidamente para gobernar Alberta, una provincia de Canadá. Tienen un sistema de donación diner