Negative Wealth Tax for a Universal Housing Benefit Credit: AgoraVox
[Liam Upton]
Language: French
jpm, “Un Impôt Négatif sur La Fortune pour une Allocation Logement Universelle [A Negative Wealth Tax for a Universal Housing Benefit]”, AgoraVox, November 4 2014
Universal Income, payment for the common good Credit: Le Monde
[Liam Upton]
Language: French
Jean-Eric Hyafil, “Le revenu universel, rémunération du bien commun [Universal Income, payment for the common good],”, Le Monde, November 7 2014
The bodies of three women were found at this abandoned house in the in poverty-striken Gary. Photo: Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune
[Liam Upton]
Whet Moser, “Want to Help Gary, Indiana? Why Not Just Give Them Money?” ChicagoMag, October 22, 2014
This book is a personal and family memoir, of Christopher Balfour—youth employment officer, independent councilor, writer, mechanic, octogenarian, and long-term basic income advocate. The book discusses British industrial self destruction and contains a plea for less inequality. It describes the author’s involvement with the Citizen’s income concept when he was involved in Politics and with the Youth Employment Service in the 1970s. The final chapter sums up its value based on the Balfour’s experience since 1970.
Christopher Balfour, Learning from Difference. Tricorn Books. 2014.
See also the author’s website.
Learning from Difference
[Liam Upton]
The author interviews the European Parliament spokesperson for Equo, the Spanish affiliate of the Green Party and supporters of Basic Income. One of the questions is whether he prefers Basic Income or a Job Guarantee.
Language: Spanish
Daniel Ayllón, “Un 15% de hogares no se puede permitir el lujo de encender la luz o la calefacción [15% of homes can’t permit themselves the luxury of heat and lighting]”, La Marea, November 23 2014
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment.
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In a context in which the Indian government at national and state levels spends a vast amount on subsidies and selective schemes that are chronically expensive, inefficient, inequitable and subject to extensive corruption, there is scope for switching at least some of the spending to a modest basic income. This book explores what would be likely to happen if this were done.
The book draws on a series of evaluation surveys conducted over the course of the eighteen months in which the main pilot was in operation, supplemented with detailed case studies of individuals and families. It looks at the impact on health and nutrition, on schooling, on economic activity, women’s agency and the welfare of those with disabilities.
Above all, the book considers whether or not a basic income could be transformative, in not only improving individual and family welfare but in promoting economic growth and development, as well as having an emancipatory effect for people long mired in conditions of poverty and economic insecurity.
Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, and Guy Standing. Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing India, December 2014.
