Frances Coppola, “Oh no, not again”
Frances Coppola, “Oh no, not again,” Coppola Comment, January 26, 2014.
Oliver Burkeman, “This column will change your life: obvious answers”
Illustration: Geoff Grandfield for the Guardian
[Craig Axford]
Is the reason solutions like a basic income guarantee are so often overlooked or ignored because they are just too obvious? This author thinks perhaps we tend to find the less obvious and more complex “solutions” more alluring, the growing list of studies supporting ideas like BIG not withstanding.
Oliver Burkeman, “This column will change your life: obvious answers”, The Guardian, February 8, 2014
Arlene Goldbard, “Deceleration & Sustainability”
This Blog reacts enthusiastically to remarks by Adrienne Goehler, who called for a basic income grant as a universal right in her concluding keynote for Staging Sustainability 2014.
Arlene Goldbard, “Deceleration & Sustainability,” Arlene’s Blog. February 21, 2014.
Infidel 753 (Blogger), “Basic income and the technological transition”
[Josh Martin]
This blog post excellently outlines some of the key benefits of the universal basic income (UBI). It especially focuses on the UBI’s ability to ease the transition into an economy where the production of wealth is done largely by machines.
Infidel 753, “Basic income and the technological transition,” Blogspot, January 29, 2014.
Hack the Union, “Why Labor should join the fight for Universal Basic Income”
Source: https://www.hacktheunion.org
“Why Labor should join the fight for Universal Basic Income”, Hack the Union, February 6, 2014
Alex Pareene, “Down with work! A pro-freedom agenda liberals should embrace”
Credit: AP/Charles Rex Arbogast
[Craig Axford]
This article makes the case that the recent announcement that the Affordable Care Act is allowing people to leave jobs they previously held on to just for the healthcare benefits is good news. Accessibility to a basic income, as well as healthcare, would give people even more freedom to escape tedious jobs they really don’t want to be doing.
Alex Pareene, “Down with work! A pro-freedom agenda liberals should embrace”, Salon, February 7, 2014
