Obey, "Universal Basic Income – A Swiss case study"
Will Switzerland adopt radical reforms for class equality?
[Craig Axford]
Obey, “Universal Basic Income – A Swiss case study”, My FDL, December 13, 2013
Video: "Not Enough Money for a Living Income?"
Andrew MacLeod, "Eighteen Ways to Shrink Inequality"
Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
[Craig Axford]
There are a number of ways to successfully deal with the issue of inequality, and they are not mutually exclusive. Among them, a guaranteed livable income, which comes in as recommendation number 8 in this article.
Andrew MacLeod, “Eighteen Ways to Shrink Inequality”, The Tyee, February 4, 2014
Journal Pioneer staff, "EI manipulation further cements need for basic income guarantee – Redmond"
Prince Edward Island
[Craig Axford]
Canadian government changes to Employment Insurance (EI) program make a guaranteed income more attractive to some on Prince Edward Island.
Journal Pioneer staff, “EI manipulation further cements need for basic income guarantee – Redmond”, The Journal Pioneer, February 25, 2014.
Shaun Loney, "Minimum income can end poverty"
Image: Bank of Montreal (bmo.com)
[Craig Axford]
A guaranteed annual income targeting the 100,000 citizens of Manitoba that are currently living below the after tax low-income cutoff would cost about $1.2 billion. According to this article, with a willing federal partner the province that was home to the 1970s Minicome experiment could make it happen.
Shaun Loney, “Minimum income can end poverty”, Winnipeg Free Press, March 1, 2014
