by Toru Yamamori | Feb 21, 2016 | News
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor of the Labour Party, has said that the party wants to look at the idea of universal basic income, according to an article in the Independent.
In a public lecture at the London School of Economics on 16th February, McDonnell stated:
It [a universal basic income] is an idea we want to look at. Child benefit was a form of basic income so it’s not something that I would rule out.
McDonnell has been known as a supporter of a universal basic income, but this is the first occasion he has introduced the idea in public since becoming shadow chancellor.
Credit picture CC Don Shall
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 10, 2016 | News
The Economist, “Basically Unaffordable“, The Economist, 23rd May 2015.
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 9, 2016 | News
NHK, the Japanese National Broadcasting Agency, held a session entitled ‘A World without Work?’ with the World Economic Forum at Davos on 20th January , which it will broadcast the session on its national satellite channel at 11am on 11th February.
In the session, anchor Hiroko Kuniya raised a question on a basic income. Some participants, including a Nobel Laureate Sir Christopher Pissarides, show their support for the idea.
The information on the TV program is currently at: https://www4.nhk.or.jp/bs1sp/
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 8, 2016 | News
Wisconsin Public Radio, a local radio in the U.S., featured UBI in its program called ‘The Kathleen Dunn Show’. The main guest was Judith Shulevitz, a journalist who recently wrote a column on feminism and UBI at the New York times. The voices from listeners on the topic were also on air. The 50 minute program can be listened to online here at:
https://www.wpr.org/feminist-case-universal-basic-income
(Last accessed on 25th January)
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 7, 2016 | News
Andrew White, ‘Could a basic income solve the biggest challenge of the digital economy?‘, The Guardian, 25th January 2016.
Andrew White, associate professor of creative industries and digital media at the University of Nottingham, argues that ‘those gathering at Davos would be remiss to not consider a basic income as a credible policy response to contemporary anxieties about our role in the modern workplace’
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