Alderman Ameya Pawar has proposed a taskforce to examine a trial of a $500 monthly cash grant along with a “smoothing” of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
CHICAGO, US: City Considers Resolution to Investigate Basic Income Pilot
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Current UBI Experiments: An update for July 2018
[This article is a draft chapter of my book, A Critical Discussion of UBI Experiments, adapted as a blog post] Like...
Why Welfare Doesn’t Work: And What We Should Do Instead
Democrats and Republicans don’t see eye to eye very often, but they can safely agree on one point: welfare doesn’t work. We must redesign this entire system. In the most prosperous nation in the world, it is ludicrous that children are growing up in the kind of deprivation we normally associate with developing countries.
SWITZERLAND: Filmmaker and Village Collaborate to Plan “Basic Income” Trial
Director Rebecca Panian and a team of research scientists are conferring with the town of Rheinau to launch a one-year program to resemble a community-wide basic income.
Review of “The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies.” (from 2014)
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in June 2014. This book was recommended to me a...
Portugal: Unconditional Basic Income of All for All
Capitalism does not inherently have a mechanism to guarantee essentials for all. Let us resurrect from our ancestral economic way its essential element: solidarity among people.
How Alaska Can Avoid the Third Stage of the Resource Curse (from 2012)
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in February 2012. The resource curse, as I see it, comes in...
United States: the district of Columbia releases a basic income policy analysis
District of columbia Lincoln memorial Washington monument. Credit to: History Channel. The district of Columbia...
TEN YEARS OF THE U.S. BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE NETWORK (from 2010)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in February 2010. This issue, Volume 11, Number 55,...
United States: Andrew Yang is running for President in 2020 on the platform of Universal Basic Income
Andrew Yang is a young entrepreneur who is running for president on the platform of Basic Income. As an entrepreneur,...
Europe: New paper by Institute of Labour Economics contributes to literature on the effects of introducing a UBI into current social security systems
Credit to: Flickr In a new paper, published by the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA) in December 2017, James...
FOUR OBITUARIES: MILTON FRIEDMAN, ANTONIO MARIA DA SILVEIRA, RICHARD CLEMENTS, AND LEONARD GREENE (from 2006)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in December 2006. Four basic income advocates died...
Obamacare’s model can solve basic income’s cost issue
One area basic income advocates need to emphasize more is this clawback of basic income.
UBI’s Impact on Work Culture: Not a Question for the Experimenters
My interest in basic income stemmed from the conjecture that such a policy could help to ignite a progression away...
Alternatives to Citizen’s Basic Income
Negative Income Tax, Tax Credits, and Citizen’s Basic Income, all generate the same net income. All three schemes would reduce marginal deduction rates, incentivize employment, and enable families to more easily to earn their way out of poverty.
A BASIC INCOME SUPPORTER’S VIEW OF THE SALES TAX MOVEMENT (from 2008)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in February 2008. The unexpected success of Mike Huckabee...
Professor argues for job guarantee over basic income
Philip Harvey, a professor of law at Rutgers, argues that a job guarantee could eliminate poverty for a fraction of the cost of UBI.
Should we worry about Basic Income earners slacking?
Let’s take a step back and reflect on whether we should be working the long hours we still do and whether a hardline approach to incentivising employment is necessary and effective.
SWITZERLAND: Chief Investment Officer of Credit Suisse argues in favour of an Unconditional Basic Income
Michael Strobaek, Global Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Switzerland's second largest bank Credit Suisse (CS), is...
UK: New research simulates labour market effects of tax and benefits reform options
Satelite picture over Europe. Credit to: TechCrunch. A new working paper from the Institute for Social and Economic...