A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
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Recent News, Opinion, and Research
United States: What are the economic implications of Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend?
Analysis of US proposals for a basic income show it would have a dramatic effect on poverty and inequality, but substantially increase the budget deficit.
Finland: How did Basic Income become mainstream?
Johanna Perkiö, Doctoral Candidate, University of Tampere A recent article on the Finnish basic income experiment has demonstrated how ‘framing’ the benefits of basic income in specific ways can make it acceptable to a wide political spectrum. University...
A form of Basic Income Guarantee has existed in a county in Oregon since 2002
According to the Capital Press, Sherman County, Oregon has had a form of Basic Income Guarantee since 2002. When the boom in wind power began 17 years ago in Sherman County, Ore., leaders there came up with an idea. Instead of the county simply pocketing property...
United Kingdom: Liverpool’s mayor and councillors bent on trying UBI
Things are stirring in Liverpool. In the aftermath of Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell’s commissioned report on basic income, Liverpool mayor John Anderson and councillor Jane Corbett have manifested their will to pursue a basic income pilot program in the...
Why UBI is the right solution to poverty in America
The following is my address, "The Power to Say No and American Social Policy," to a conference entitled, "Poverty in America: A Range of Critical Perspectives on Its Causes, Effects, and Possible Solutions." The conference was held at Florida State University on March...
United States: More on the fiscal crisis in Alaska
It seems that the Alaskan tax policy is being too generous with oil companies. On top of the fact that there is no income or value-added tax (VAT) in Alaska, every year oil companies operating in Alaska are granted wealthy tax credits, this year amounting to $1.2...
Korea: Interview with pro-UBI provincial governor
Governor Jae-myung Lee introduced the “Seongnam Youth Dividend” in 2016 during his term as the mayor of Seongnam city. It was a partial basic income for youth.
Canada: A 20-year basic income experiment is being considered in Quebec
Yv Bonnier Viger. Picture credit to: Huffpost Quebec Gaspesie and Îles-de-la-Madeleine regional public health director Yv Bonnier Viger is convinced that basic income can have dramatic positive effects on people’s health. So much so that the local public health...
Israel: Study detailing plan for implementing basic income
Economists Ori Katz (picture: on the left) and Michael Sarel (picture: on the right) believe the implementation of basic income is a task both necessary and desirable in the near future, within the Israeli social reality. So, as researchers, they conducted a thorough...
Andrew Yang’s Main Goal: Abolish Poverty and Make the Wealthy Pay For It – A Reaction to Chapo Trap House
By Jason Burke Murphy Andrew Yang's interview with Virgil Texas on the podcast Chapo Trap House helps to answer a lot of questions that keep coming up as his candidacy is debated. After a little while Virgil brings up concerns that one often encounters in debate...
United States: Recent poll reveals exactly who is supporting Andrew Yang’s UBI
Echelon Insights has developed a poll where, amongst other issues, has questioned 1006 registered voters about Andrew Yang’s universal basic income (UBI) policy (to be implemented if he’s elected). It turns out that, globally, support for UBI is tightly close to...
Universal Basic Income and the Philosophy of Freedom
The following is an extended excerpt from, “The Future of Work: Universal Basic Income and the Philosophy of Freedom,” by Romany Williams, SSENSE. The rhetoric that increased entrepreneurship equals a utopian society is one-sided. What about equality as a means for...