This article considers the movement for a universal basic income in Canada and reports that the issues in implementing such a plan are not economic ones but political ones.
In this article Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, suggests the ‘implementation of a...
David DeGraw, “The Economics of Revolution Interviews, Roundup 1 ~ Peak Inequality, Basic Income & the Emerging...
Toni Pickard, “Thinking BIG about welfare, inequality.” Ottawa Citizen, August 15, 2014
SUMMARY: This blog reacts to the large and growing wealth inequality in Britain, now at the point at which the...
SUMMARY: In this article four UK organizational leaders outline their vision for a more equal Britain. One of them is...
The purchase of Oculus by Facebook for $2 billion is the new best example of the growing inequality inherent in 21st century capitalism – what Paul Mason describes as the The Fourth Wave. A few people just got really rich, while the thousands of people who helped build the company from nothing, through $2.5 million of crowdsourced capital and a thriving open-source developer community didn’t.
SUMMARY. This article discusses a policy that is essentially a very small basic income guarantee. The author writes,...
[Craig Axford] There are a number of ways to successfully deal with the issue of inequality, and they are not mutually...
SUMMARY: This article focuses on poverty and inequality, discussing how poverty puts people in a condition in which...
Robert A. Becker (ed.), The Economic Theory of Income Inequality, Edward Elgar, 2013, 0 85793 908 1, hbk, lvii + 636...
[Craig Axford] SUMMARY: Singapore has one of the highest inequality rates in the world. Could a basic income...
Ned Resnikoff, “Four ways Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to battle inequality Lekharna-Prague.com ,” MSNBC, 01/19/14.
This article uses the term “guaranteed minimum income” for the first of its ten ways to get serious about inequality,...
SPEAKER: Perce Harpham DATE: Friday, 31 January VENUE: Rutherford House, Lecture Theatre 3, Institute for Governance...
[Craig Axford] SUMMARY: The Swiss have a long history of referendums that lead to change not only at home, but abroad...
[Josh Martin] Longstreet believes the Democratic Party in the U.S. will use the appeal of a basic income guarantee...
This document reports on a conference that was hosted by Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) and the...
Karl Widerquist, Associate Professor at SFS-Q, Georgetown University, will give a public lecture entitled, “Basic...
Trish Hennessy recently published a short article on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives blog that included a...