[Josh Martin]
Tchnerneva writes in response to a post by Matt Yglesias where Yglesias criticizes the idea of a job guarantee. Tchnerneva’s article focuses on defending the job guarantee and, in the process, attacking the basic income guarantee.
Pavlina Tcherneva, “16 Reasons Matt Yglesias is Wrong about the Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income,” New Economic Perspectives, January 16, 2014.
In this blog, John Courtneidge outlines the Campaign for Co-operative Socialism for Occupy London Economics Working Group. According to Courtneidge, co-operative Socialism is the nonviolent, non-hierarchical alternative to capitalism and totalitarianism. He explains it with text and video. The discussion includes an endorsement of BIG.
John Courtneidge, “Co-operative Socialism,” Occupy London: An Occupier’s Perspective, January 22, 2014.
Barbara Jacobson, “Social security without the surveillance”, Basic Income UK, January 13, 2014.
Social security without the surveillance -BI UK
[Josh Martin]
The recent poll from the Trudeau Foundation found that 46% of Canadians are in favor of a guaranteed annual income, while 42% of Canadians are opposed. Rainer, however, raises caution over these numbers because the poll’s question suggested that the guaranteed annual income would replace current economic assistance programs. Rainer strongly believes in the necessity to continue economic assistance programs like unemployment insurance, among others, while using the guaranteed annual income as the foundation of Canadian social security.
Rob Rainer, “The Trudeau Foundation Poll: A Closer Look 1.0,” The BIG Push Campaign, January 29, 2014.
Rob Rainer is Director of The BIG Push campaign. (The BIG Push Campaign)
Ned Resnikoff, “Four ways Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to battle inequality,” MSNBC, 01/19/14.
Matthew Yglesias, “Martin Luther King’s Case for a Guaranteed Basic Income,” Slate, Aug. 28 2013.
Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images via Slate