Travis Gettys, “Occupy organizer calls for guaranteed income: Cost of poverty greater than eliminating it”
Travis Gettys, “Occupy organizer calls for guaranteed income: Cost of poverty greater than eliminating it”, Raw Story, 9th October 2014
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, “Pro-Life, Anti-Poverty”
Pro-Life, Anti-Poverty
The author examines various solutions for the financial hardships of raising children and proposes a “child allowance”, which would be a “no-strings-attached $300 per month per child income”. A no-strings-attached income for children is, essentially, a basic income for children.
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, “Pro-Life, Anti-Poverty”, The American Conservative, 8 July 2014
Nigel Todman, “Canada could eliminate Poverty and Homelessness overnight. But will they?”
Basic Income flyer
The author discusses a basic income proposal from Canadian Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, explaining what it entails and why providing a guaranteed basic income would be more cost-efficient than the current system. He also discusses the 1970s Mincome experiment.
Nigel Todman, “Canada could eliminate Poverty and Homelessness overnight. But will they?”, North American Association of Independent Journalists, 10 November 2013
Dylan Matthews, “Basic income: the world's simplest plan to end poverty, explained.”
SUMMARY: “In recent months, discussion of basic income proposals have become fairly mainstream, but not so mainstream that most people know what the phrase ‘basic income’ means. With that in mind, here are the basics (get it?) of the idea, in [answers to the following] eleven questions.”
1) What is basic income?
2) Who supports basic income?
3) Has a basic income been implemented anywhere?
4) Wouldn’t this destroy the economy?
5) Could a basic income ever happen in the United States?
6) I believe it’s customary to provide a music break? [“Money for Nothing”]
7) Will a basic income save us from the robot uprising?
8 ) What’s the liberal/leftist case for basic income?
9) What’s the conservative/libertarian case for basic income?
10) What’s the liberal/leftist case against basic income?
11) What’s the conservative/libertarian case against basic income?
Dylan Matthews, “Basic income: the world’s simplest plan to end poverty, explained.” Vox, September 8, 2014
Vox
Dylan Matthews, “A guaranteed income for every American would eliminate poverty — and it wouldn't destroy the economy”
Dylan Matthews, “A guaranteed income for every American would eliminate poverty — and it wouldn’t destroy the economy”, Vox, 05 August 2014
