Carbon Tax and Dividend Endorsed by Irish Prime Minister
The Prime Minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, has just endorsed a carbon tax in which all funds go to a direct cash dividend.
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Interview: Presidential campaign brings ‘new crowds’ to basic income
Yang took time out of one of his presidential campaign rallies and fundraisers to speak with BI News. Yang expressed hope that supporters of basic income would get behind his campaign early. Andrew Yang was then, and still is as of this writing, the only announced candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
» Read moreCANADA: Symposium on Dauphin Mincome Experiment Held at University of Manitoba
By Jason Burke Murphy On October 3rd, the Social Work Department at the University of Manitoba held a Symposium on the Mincome Experiment conducted in Dauphin, Manitoba in the 1970’s. This included presentations by the Director of the Mincome Experiment in the 1970’s, Ron Hikel. The resources from the Mincome Symposium held at the University of Manitoba (including the
» Read moreGermany: Interview with German Parliamentary Candidate Felix Coeln
By Jason Burke Murphy US Basic Income Guarantee Network Coming up on September 24th, Germany will be holding national parliamentary elections. A new “single-issue-party” will be on the ballot in every state, the “Alliance for Basic Income” (Bundnis Grundeinkommen). If this party gets five percent of the vote or more, they will have five percent or more of votes in
» Read moreHow Many Couch Potatoes Can You Live With?
Most people with a basic income will live a lot like they do now. They will have a more stable income. They will worry less about many of their friends and family. This cuts into the number of people who would choose the couch.
» Read moreStudy of Iran’s basic income shows it did not harm employment
An economic study of Iran’s Basic Income, which was implemented to make it easier to phase out expensive (and ecologically destructive) fuel subsidies, shows that there have been no negative effects on employment.
» Read moreBasic Income as All-inclusive Democratic Subsidy
Freedom should not be understood as a mere absence of intervention or interference. On the contrary, freedom should be understand as independence over against any arbitrary authority.
» Read moreBasic Income, sustainable consumption and the ‘DeGrowth’ movement
The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative conference is dedicated to interdisciplinary study of consumption and the ecological impact of that consumption. They take seriously the threat of climate change and posed strong questions about the ways that our consumption decisions are driven by corporate culture and social planning.
» Read moreBasic Income as Proposal, as Project, and as Idea
I have been part of Basic Income Earth Network’s and US Basic Income Guarantee Network’s social media team for a while and I want to clarify something for as many readers as possible. There are three ways of looking at the basic income movement: Basic Income can be endorsed as a (1) proposal or (2) a project or (3) an
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