Matthew Feeney
Author’s summary, “A guaranteed income would reduce the humiliations of the current welfare system while promoting individual responsibility.”
Matthew Feeney, “Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money,” Reason.com, November 26, 2013.
[Josh Martin]
Joseph Finlay
In this article Finlay summarizes a wide range of key arguments for the basic income and suggests the implementation of a £10,000 basic income for all adults in the UK as a solution to issues with current welfare spending. Finlay then outlines a funding plan for the proposed reform.
Joseph Finlay, “Free Money for All – The Only Way Forward on Welfare,” Huffington Post, January 1, 2014.
Summary: Latin America as laboratory for conditional cash transfers, fast becoming the hegemonic social-protection paradigm for the Global South. In a comparative survey, Lena Lavinas reveals the CCT model as a strategy for the financialization—not abolition—of poverty. The conclusion of the article compares CCTs to UCTs (Unconditional Cash Transfers).
Lena Lavinas, “21st Century Welfare,” New Left Review Vol. 84, November/December 2013.
Daniel Greenfield, “A Basic Income Guarantee is Never Going to Substitute for the Welfare State,” The Frontpage Mag, December 14, 2013.
Sarah Rogers, “Welfare plays too big a role in Nunavut’s income security system: report,” Nunatsiaq News. December 11, 2013.
Iqaluit residents take part in a roundtable discussions on food security and poverty in 2011, hosted by Nunavut's Anti-Poverty Secretariat. A new report commissioned by the secretariat says Nunavummiut are too dependent on social assistance. (Nunatsiaq Online))