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Podcast on Basic Income #7 (13/11/25)

by BINews | Nov 25, 2013 | Opinion

Respective Links:
0:31 Canada – Megan McArdle
https://binews.org/2013/11/megan-mcardle-%e2%80%9ccanadian-test-shows-income-guarantees-dont-work%e2%80%9d/

0:46 Canada – Bruce Stewart
https://binews.org/2013/11/canada-bruce-stewart-%e2%80%9ccanadian-senator-hugh-segal-and-his-guaranteed-income-plan%e2%80%9d/

1:16 Africa, India – Shanta Devarajan
https://binews.org/2013/11/shanta-devarajan-%e2%80%9clet-them-eat-cash%e2%80%9d/

1:31 Switzerland – Jillian Steinhauer
https://binews.org/2013/11/jillian-steinhauer-%e2%80%9can-artist%e2%80%99s-plan-to-get-everyone-in-switzerland-paid%e2%80%9d/

1:45 The United States – Tim Krider
https://binews.org/2013/11/tim-kreider-%e2%80%9cthe-%e2%80%98busy%e2%80%99-trap%e2%80%9d/

2:13 Africa – Maniza Naqvi
https://binews.org/2013/11/maniza-naqvi-and-marcelo-giugale-mineral-wealth-can-finance-direct-dividend-payments-to-citzens/

2:59 Blog Post – Heteconomist.com
https://binews.org/2013/11/heteconomist-com-%e2%80%9ca-big-justification-under-capitalism%e2%80%9d/

3:16 Book Review – Malcol Torry
https://binews.org/2013/11/tracy-shildrick-robrt-macdonald-colin-webster-and-kayleigh-garthwaite-poverty-and-insecurity-life-in-low-pay-no-pay-britain/

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UNITED STATES: Petition combines proposals from two different Swiss petitions

by Karl Widerquist | Nov 23, 2013 | News

A recent Swiss petition drive has mandated a national referendum on a Basic Income. Parliament will have more than a year to craft the wording and call for a vote. An entirely separate petition drive has called for limiting CEO pay to no more than 12 times the lowest pay in the company. The vote on this issue will happen this month. Although the two petition drives in Switzerland were entirely separate, and to some extent competing, a new petition drive in the United States had combined the two proposals, calling for both limits on CEO pay and a basic income guarantee.

The proposal is online at: https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8734

Roots Action

VIDEO: Fox News, “Should the government give you a ‘basic income’ just for being alive?”

by Karl Widerquist | Nov 21, 2013 | News

In this Fox News video, economist Peter Morici and Economic Policy Institute’s Christian Dorsey discuss the proposal in Switzerland of a ‘basic income’ with host Melissa Francis.

Melissa Francis, “Should the government give you a ‘basic income’ just for being alive?” Fox News, Nov. 15, 2013.

The Economist, “The check is in the mail: A government-guaranteed basic income”

by Karl Widerquist | Nov 20, 2013 | Research

This article begins a rather philosophical discussion of basic income with the following, “What if America were to scrap all its anti-poverty programmes—welfare, food stamps, unemployment benefits, the works—and replace them with an unconditional basic income (UBI) for everybody? Even in a Congress beset by less extraordinary levels of dysfunction, the idea would have little chance of becoming law. It’s fun to theorise, though. And if Switzerland approves a referendum to send all of its citizens $2,800 a month, the debate will have a fascinating new reference point.”

The Economist, “The check is in the mail: A government-guaranteed basic income,” The Economist, Nov 19th 2013.