Herbert J. Gans, “Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?”

by Karl Widerquist | Apr 7, 2014 | Research

FROM THE ABSTRACT: Given the low job creation of recent years, the persistence of poverty, and stagnating wages for so many, it is time to think of cash grants to Americans, according to the author. He offers us a historical review of past proposals and some practical new ideas of his own.

Herbert J. Gans, “Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?” Challenge, Volume 57, Number 2, March-April 2014.

Mytheos Holt, “Why doesn’t the left push a universal basic income?”

by Karl Widerquist | Apr 6, 2014 | Research

Mytheos Holt, “Why doesn’t the left push a universal basic income?” R Street Institute, February 24, 2014.

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Living Income, “To Demand Change or to Create Solutions for Change?”

by Karl Widerquist | Apr 5, 2014 | Research

According to the author, “One major difference that exists within the proposal of an Unconditional Basic Income to every individual and the Living Income Guaranteed, is that Basic Income focuses on Demanding the right to life, that is: demanding to the current government within the current system as it currently exists to provide the money – which we already give in the form of taxes – as a basic income, and that’s it. This elemental mechanism overlooks the necessity to address the structural problems that the system is founded upon, such as the lack of structures and mechanisms in which the profits that are usually amassed only by a few in our societies are given back to the society in a sustainable and supportive manner.”

Living Income, “To Demand Change or to Create Solutions for Change?” Living Income, March 6, 2014.