Tameside Green Party, “Greens support Unconditional Basic Income”
Tameside Green Party, “Greens support Unconditional Basic Income,” Tameside Green Party. January 8 , 2014.
Michael W. Howard, “One solution could fight both global extreme poverty and climate change”
Michael Howard
[Michael W. Howard]
One partial solution to global extreme poverty could also help to mitigate the growing impacts of climate change: the development of a universal dividend funded by a universal carbon fee.
Michael W. Howard, “One solution could fight both global extreme poverty and climate change,” Bangor Daily News, February 5, 2014.
Andrew Coyne, “Raising minimum wage won’t help end poverty but giving the poor more money will”
[Josh Martin]
Coyne’s article largely serves as a critique of raising the minimum wage as a policy to combat poverty. Debates over how high the minimum wage ought to be seem arbitrary, and Coyne argues that those in poverty face employment issues from a lack of hours, not wages. Coyne classifies raising the minimum wage as trying to do “social justice on the cheap” and instead calls for efforts to enact a minimum income.
Andrew Coyne, “Raising minimum wage won’t help end poverty but giving the poor more money will,” National Post, January 27, 2014.
The minimum wage is particularly ineffective at fighting poverty, partly because few people in poverty are employed at any wage, Andrew Coyne writes. (Leah Hennel/Postmedia News/Files)
L. Randall Wray, “Let’s Compare the Job Guarantee to the Alternatives, NOT Against Some Distant Utopian Vision”
[Josh Martin]
Wray’s article compares his job guarantee plan to the basic income guarantee (BIG). Through his analysis, he finds that the job guarantee does a much better job at combating poverty than the BIG.
L. Randall Wray, “Let’s Compare the Job Guarantee to the Alternatives, NOT Against Some Distant Utopian Vision,” Economonitor, January 27, 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.
David Spencer, “The case for working less”
Without mentioning BIG, this article argues for it. The article appears in Pieria, which has run several articles favoring BIG.
David Spencer, “The case for working less,” Pieria, Jan 22nd 2014.
The case for working less -Pieria
Matt Bruenig, “What People Mean When They Say Reducing Poverty Is Difficult”
Matt Bruenig, “What People Mean When They Say Reducing Poverty Is Difficult”, PolicyShop, January 10, 2014.
Policy Shop