Kevin Milligan, “What’s the right policy tool to fight poverty?”
Kevin Milligan, “What’s the right policy tool to fight poverty?” Maclean’s, January 31, 2014.
The Editors of Ethics & International Affairs, "Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Global Justice: An Exchange"
[Josh Martin]
This article contains four detailed responses to an article written by Chris Armstrong about Sovereign Wealth Funds and global justice. The responses are by Oliviero Angeli, Andreas Follesdal, Angela Cummine, and Paul Segal. Some of the discussion involves the possibility of distributing oil revenue in the form of a dividend basic income guarantee.
The Editors, “Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Global Justice: An Exchange,” Ethics & International Affairs, January 24, 2014.
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Citizen’s Income Trust, Citizen’s Income Newsletter
The first issue of the Citizen’s Income Newsletter was released in February 2014. It is published by the Citizen’s Income Trust, BIEN’s affiliated in the United Kingdom. It contains: A notice of a meeting at the Houses of Parliament on the 4th March, 2014, Editorials on the complexity of the benefits system and on the Citizen’s Income Trust’s 30th anniversary, a main article on the political feasibility of a Citizen’s Income in the UK, news items, a notice about BIEN’s 2014 conference in Montreal, and book reviews
Citizen’s Income Trust, Citizen’s Income Newsletter, Issue 1, 2014.
Leon Neyfakh, “Should the government pay you to be alive?”
-Jacob Thomas for The Boston Globe
SUMMMARY: Leon Neyfakh writes, “It sounds radical, but the ‘guaranteed basic income’ almost became law in the United States—and it’s having a revival now, with some surprising supporters.” This article traces some of the history of the Basic Income Guarantee in the United States going back to the Negative Income Tax issue in the 1970s and connecting to how social activism and the Great Recession have brought the issue back into mainstream political discussion. The piece quotes from Steve Pressman and Philippe Van Parijs, two prominent members of the BIG movement.
Leon Neyfakh, “Should the government pay you to be alive?” The Boston Globe, February 09, 2014.
Alec Liu, “How Giving Cash Directly to the Poor Paid Off in Brazil”
[Josh Martin]
Liu’s article focuses on Brazil’s “Bolsa Familia” program, which began 10 years ago and was essentially a conditional cash transfer to Brazilian families. Its success has left many optimistic about the future of (un)conditional cash transfers.
Alec Liu, “How Giving Cash Directly to the Poor Paid Off in Brazil,” Vice, January 2014.
L. Randall Wray, “Bop a Mole #2: JG Workers Will Do Nothing Useful, The JG Program Will Not Be Manageable”
[Josh Martin]
L. Randall Wray writes extensively on the idea of a job guarantee. Wray mentions the Basic Income Guarantee supports as among those claiming that job guarantee workers wouldn’t do anything useful. Wray respond by using the WPA of the New Deal as a major example of a successful job guarantee program.
L. Randall Wray, “Bop a Mole #2: JG Workers Will Do Nothing Useful, The JG Program Will Not Be Manageable,” Economonitor, January 7, 2014.
L. Randall Wray is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, NY.