Author Archives: Kate McFarland
STOCKTON, CA, US: New Details Revealed in Planned Basic Income Demonstration
Invitations to participate will be mailed to randomly selected households in low-to-average income Stockton neighborhoods no later than January 2019.
» Read moreUS: Chicago Tribune against Basic Income for City
“City Hall would be wiser to look for ways to help raise incomes among working-class and poor residents without taking on commitments it can’t afford.”
» Read moreUS: Poll of “Left Agenda” Examines Support for Basic Income
A new survey shows support for an income-tax-funded basic income from people of color and the working class, opposition from college-educated white Americans.
» Read moreONTARIO, CANADA: Project Advisors Oppose Termination of Pilot Study
Project advisors Hugh Segal and Kwame McKenzie and other researchers speak out against the early end of the province’s guaranteed income trial.
» Read moreONTARIO, CANADA: New Government Declares Early End of Guaranteed Income Experiment
Progressive Conservatives backpedal on campaign promise not to cancel payments to 4000 low-income Ontarians in three-year pilot program.
» Read moreCHICAGO, US: City Considers Resolution to Investigate Basic Income Pilot
Alderman Ameya Pawar has proposed a taskforce to examine a trial of a $500 monthly cash grant along with a “smoothing” of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
» Read moreSWITZERLAND: Filmmaker and Village Collaborate to Plan “Basic Income” Trial
Director Rebecca Panian and a team of research scientists are conferring with the town of Rheinau to launch a one-year program to resemble a community-wide basic income.
» Read moreUK: Call for Papers announced for Cambridge conference on intellectual history of basic income
A team of three University of Cambridge scholars have released a CFP for a conference on the history of the idea of basic income, to be held on January 14, 2019.
» Read moreInterview: UBI and ‘Job Culture’ (Part Two)
Kate McFarland interviews D. JoAnne Swanson of The Anticareerist, discussing how Universal Basic Income may help address compulsory wage labor.
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