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UNITED STATES: Vox’s Dylan Matthews Extensively Writes on the Basic Income
[Josh Martin]
Dylan Matthews, contributor to Vox and formerly to The Washington Post, has written a series of well-researched posts on the universal basic income. Since December 2012, Matthews’s posts have frequently been on Basic Income News.
Dylan Matthews writes extensively on the basic income (Source: Vox)
Matthews was included in Politics Daily’s “five rising stars under 25” and started his own politics blog, MiniPundit, at age 14. He attended Harvard University where he wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and he has worked with Ezra Klein extensively over the past five years at both Vox and The Washington Post.
The following are links to his posts on the universal basic income:
Dylan Matthews “Obama doesn’t want to just write welfare recipients checks. But what if we did?” The Washington Post, 8 August 2012.
Dylan Matthews, “A Fox News anchor just endorsed something you’d never expect.”, The Washington Post, 16 November 2013.
Dylan Matthews, “Five conservative reforms millennials should be fighting for,” The Washington Post, 7 January 2014.
Dylan Matthews, “More evidence that giving poor people money is a great cure for poverty”, Vox, 7 June 2014.
Dylan Matthews, “Mexico tried giving poor people cash instead of food. It worked.”, Vox, 26 June 2014.
Dylan Matthews, “Giving everyone a basic income would work for the same reasons Social Security does”, Vox, 30 July 2014.
Dylan Matthews, “A guaranteed income for every American would eliminate poverty — and it wouldn’t destroy the economy”, Vox, 05 August 2014.
Dylan Matthews, “Basic income: the world’s simplest plan to end poverty, explained.” Vox, 8 September 2014.
Dylan Matthews, “To Fix the Economy, Let’s Print Money and Mail it to Everyone.” Vox. 9 September 2014.
Dylan Matthews, “We know how to end poverty. So why don’t we?”, Vox, 14 November 2014.
Video: Dylan Matthews, “We know how to end poverty. So why don’t we?”
[Josh Martin]
Matthews has written extensively on the basic income on Vox, and his most recent work is this brief two minute video explaining the history of basic income ideas in the USA, including policies produced by President Nixon in 1969 and the Negative Income Tax experiments in the USA in the 1970s.
Dylan Matthews, “We know how to end poverty. So why don’t we?”, Vox, 14 November 2014.
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John Grgurich, “Instead of QE, the Fed Could Have Given $56,000 to Every Household in America”
[Josh Martin]
In Grgurich’s article, he discusses one of the Fed’s major policy decisions during the Great Recession, which was to purchase Treasury bonds monthly. Grgurich then goes on to explain that the amount of money spent on these policies could have been given back to the people at $56,000 per household. This would have boosted those on the bottom of the economic ladder, and could be seen as a form of a basic income.
John Grgurich, “Instead of QE, the Fed Could Have Given $56,000 to Every Household in America”, The Fiscal Times, 18 September 2014.
(Source: The Fiscal Times)
Malcolm Torry, “Policy Briefing: Basic Income – A Benefits System For Our Society, Today and Tomorrow”
[Josh Martin]
Torry’s post provides a very well informed picture of current social policy in the UK, and attempts to envision what societal changes will occur in the next few decades. He highlights the flexibility of the labor market and the changing nature of households to show that the social policies need to change. He then explains the benefit and longevity of the NHS and Child Benefit before then arguing for a Citizen’s Income (also named a basic income) as the right choice for the future of income maintenance.
Malcolm Torry, “Policy Briefing: Basic Income – A Benefits System For Our Society, Today and Tomorrow”, Discover Society, 30 September 2014.
(Source: Discover Society)
