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Zoe Williams, “Fed up with growth-focused politics? For real change, look left”
Oct 21, 2014 | Research
In this article, Zoe Williams surveys the options available to voters looking for a left-wing alternative. She mentions the basic income as one of the possible policies on offer from sections of the UK left, most notably the Green Party. She writes that ‘a huge amount...
Cristina Brooks, “Tory tax cuts to take minimum-wage earners back to 2010”
Oct 20, 2014 | Research
In this article, Cristina Brooks deals with the UK Conservative Party’s recent pledge to reduce the tax paid by low earners. She suggests that David Cameron, the party leader, ‘should consider the £12,000 basic income handout put forward by supporters of Basic Income...
Erik Brynjolfsson, Jeremy Howard, Robert Schiller, “The Great Decoupling”
Oct 19, 2014 | Research
Speaking as part of a roundtable discussion in the McKinsey Quarterly, Jeremy Howard suggests that we have to ‘accept that in this new world, there’s a large group of people who can’t really add economic value anymore, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get to live a...
Simon Duffy and John Dalrymple, "Let’s scrap the DWP: The case for basic income security in Scotland"
Oct 19, 2014 | Research
Simon Duffy and John Dalrymple, "Let's scrap the DWP: The case for basic income security in Scotland", The Centre for Welfare Reform, 2014 September
Elizabeth May, “A $15 minimum wage will not solve inequality — but it'll help”
Oct 18, 2014 | Research
In this article Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, suggests the ‘implementation of a universal Guaranteed Livable Income. She argues that such a measure ‘would provide the means for every Canadian to avoid poverty. It would save the health care...
Gaura Rader, “Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and Some Tangentially Related Thoughts on Basic Income”
Oct 17, 2014 | Research
Gaura Rader, “Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and Some Tangentially Related Thoughts on Basic Income”, The Socratic Diablogs, 2nd October 2014
Stanislas Jourdan, “Guy Standing: The Precariat is growing angry”
Oct 16, 2014 | Research
In this interview with Stanislas Jourdan, Guy Standing discusses how the basic income would remedy some of the insecurities experienced by the ‘precariat’. The full article is available here: Stanislas Jourdan, “Guy Standing: “The Precariat is growing angry”, Boiling...
Steve Randy Waldman, “The political economy of a universal basic income.”
Oct 16, 2014 | Research
Steve Randy Waldman, “The political economy of a universal basic income.”, interfluidity, 2014 September 19
David DeGraw, “The Coming Revolution: Evolutionary Leap or Descent Into Chaos and Violence?”
Oct 15, 2014 | Research
In this excerpt from David DeGraw’s book, The Economics of Revolution, he suggests that the money the US government used to stimulate the economy through quantitative easing constituted a hand-out to the rich, and would have been better directed elsewhere, namely...
Sarah Jaffe, “Naomi Klein on Cause of Climate Crisis: "Capitalism Is Stupid"”
Oct 15, 2014 | Research
In this this interview with Sarah Jaffe, Naomi Klein explains how the basic income can help move communities towards greener ways of living by making possible productive activities and relationships with nature that are not dependent upon presently existing economic...
John Cunningham, “Basic Income and the 21st Century Working Class”
Oct 15, 2014 | Research
John Cunningham, “Basic Income and the 21st Century Working Class.” Worker’s Liberty. September 23, 2014.
Travis Gettys, “Occupy organizer calls for guaranteed income: Cost of poverty greater than eliminating it”
Oct 14, 2014 | Research
Travis Gettys, “Occupy organizer calls for guaranteed income: Cost of poverty greater than eliminating it”, Raw Story, 9th October 2014
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