by Josh Martin | Jan 13, 2016 | News
From the video description:
“On April 4th 2015, Christina Lambrecht gave a very vibrant talk about Basic Income. She talks about UBI and their critics without arguments, GNP without happiness, lazy losers winning the lottery, and robots stealing our jobs. She also explains the criteria for the UBI as defined by BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network), and arguments from a historic perspective, the need for a Basic Income, arriving at the conclusion that it’s all about the zeitgeist…
Organized by:
TZM (The Zeitgeist Movement) is a sustainability advocacy organization. The movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, pollution, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be “symptoms” born out of an outdated social structure.
While intermediate reform steps are of interest to the movement, the defining goal is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible resource management, allocation and design through what would be considered the scientific method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.”
Watch the video here.
by Josh Martin | Jan 12, 2016 | News
Raventos and Wark discuss a universal basic income in the context of widening economic inequality across Europe, highlighting its place in Article 1.3 of the Universal Declaration of Emerging Human Rights as a right to material existence. They go on to present a basic income as an important idea within the human rights arena.
Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark, “Basic Income, Basic Issues”, Counterpunch, 8 January 2016.
by Josh Martin | Nov 14, 2015 | News
News media website Vox recently began a weekly podcast named The Weeds that dives into deep public policy discussions surrounding politics today. In their episode released today, Matt Yglesias and Sarah Kliff, two regulars on the show, welcomed guest host Dylan Matthews, a Vox contributor who has written extensively on basic income previously.
Matt, Sarah, and Dylan discuss basic income for the first half hour of the podcast, highlighting its ideological diversity, its impact on work, and whether it can possibly answer issues with technological automation in the future. Further, at the beginning of the episode they give BasicIncome.org a shoutout for covering Dylan’s work.
To listen to the episode, click here.
by Josh Martin | Oct 30, 2015 | News
From November 13-15, join the Universal Income Project in San Francisco at the very first Createathon centered on the idea of a universal basic income in the United States. People from all walks of life will attend the event and will collaborate to brainstorm and create content and media on the theme of a basic income in the U.S.
For more information, click here.
by Josh Martin | Oct 26, 2015 | News, Research
New research from economists at Hallym University in Chuncheon and Korea University in Seoul found that Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend has helped increase birth weights for Alaska newborns. According to the study, from 1978 to 1984, the dividend cash transfer increased weight by 34.8 grams (1.23 ounces) and reduces the likelihood of low birth weight by 14 percent when comparing to other states during the same period. Some Alaskan economists and pediatricians have raised doubts over the study, however, claiming that the study coincides with a time of big social and economic change in Alaska and thus the improvement must not be attributed solely to the Permanent Fund Dividend. Regardless, this study produces further arguments for the benefits of unconditional cash transfers like a basic income or the Permanent Fund Dividend.
For more background read the following link:
Yereth Rosen, “Does the PFD make babies bigger?”, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 October 2015.
The study itself can be found here:
Wankyo Chung, Hyungserk Ha, and Beomsoo Kim, “Money Transfer and Birth Weight: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend”, Economic Inquiry, 23 June 2015.
