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Brian Wang, “Politically enable the birth of a cash cow to fund Universal Basic Income”

by Harry Pitts | Oct 25, 2014 | Research

Brian Wang, “Politically enable the birth of a cash cow to fund Universal Basic Income”, Next Big Future, 8^th October 2014

Kristina Salas, “Mothers and a Living Income – Giving as We have Received”

by Toby | Oct 25, 2014 | Research

Living Income for Mothers

The author discusses the difficulties of mothers, especially single mothers, in being able to care for their families, and proposes a Living Income. The Living Income Guaranteed would be a partial Basic Income in that it is means-tested and is intended to be provided to all below a certain level of income.

Kristina Salas, “Mothers and a Living Income – Giving as We have Received”, Quality Life Guaranteed, 2014 September 25

David Jenkins, “A Perspective on Inflation”

by Harry Pitts | Oct 24, 2014 | Research

In this article, David Jenkins assesses the possible impacts of a basic income upon inflation. He concludes that ‘[t]here is reason to believe then that UBI will not produce the kinds of inflationary effects for which it stands accused.’

The full article is available here:

David Jenkins, “A Perspective on Inflation”, Basic Income UK: Towards an emancipatory welfare, 8^th October 2014

Scott Santens, "Breaking Down Without a Spare – America’s lopsided welfare system of counterproductive public assistance"

by USBIG | Oct 24, 2014 | Research

In this article, Scott Santens describes our current welfare system across the entire socioeconomic spectrum, and stresses the need for an improved safety net that exists as a basic income floor everyone can count on and no one can fall beneath.

Scott Santens, “Breaking Down Without a Spare – America’s lopsided welfare system of counterproductive public assistance“, Medium, 13 October 2014.