by Karl Widerquist | Feb 28, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: Rob Rainer is the founder and director of The BIG Push campaign of Basic Income Canada Network. Kelly Ernst is the Chair of the Board of Basic Income Canada Network. In this article they argue that what is most needed now in Canada is a basic income guarantee for working-age adults.
Rob Rainer and Kelly Ernst, “How can we not afford a ‘basic annual income’?” the Toronto Star, Feb 27 2014
"Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau votes during the party's biennial convention in Montreal on Feb. 23, 2014. Delegates endorsed the principle of a basic annual income." -Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS via the Toronto Star
by Craig Axford | Feb 28, 2014 | Research
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Canada’s 1970s experiment with a basic income guarantee in a small town in Manitoba is revisited in this article. Though the Mincome pilot program came to an end in 1978 without the impacts of the program receiving much analysis, that changed when Evelyn Forget, professor of health sciences at the University of Manitoba, gained access to the data in 2009.
Vivian Belik, “A Town Without Poverty?”, The Dominion, September 5, 2011
by Josh Martin | Feb 27, 2014 | Research
Brian Merchant, “The Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World’s Jobs Disappear,” Vice, January 21, 2014.
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by Yannick Vanderborght | Feb 27, 2014 | Research
In this piece published by the Green European Journal on 26 February 2014, Sascha Liebermann (Professor of Sociology at the Alanus University, and co-founder of the Initiative «Freiheit statt Vollbeschäftigung») discusses the impact of the “European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) on basic income” in Germany. He focuses in particular on the reasons for the comparatively low participation rate in Germany.
The piece can be read online here.
Professor of Sociology at the Alanus University in Alfter bei Bonn. He is co-founder of the Initiative «Freiheit statt Vollbeschäftigung» that promotes public debate on Basic Income. – See more at: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/success-failure-discussion-outcome-eci-unconditional-basic-income-germany/#sthash.f5a6nDOh.dpuf
by Craig Axford | Feb 27, 2014 | Research
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Jill Segger, “Living by bread alone: economic growth and the citizen’s income”, Ekklesia, February 7, 2014
by Josh Martin | Feb 26, 2014 | Research
Ben Knight, “’Hartz reforms’: how a benefits shakeup changed Germany,” The Guardian, January 1, 2013.
Thousands of Germans protested against the Hartz IV labour and welfare reforms in 2004. Photograph: Peter Endig/EPA
