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Debate: Universal Basic Income or Job Guarantees – which way for progressives?
Guy Standing will debate Lord Robert Skidelsky on Tuesday 1 February 2022 at 5pm GMT. This will be a public webinar...
Finland’s basic income never failed, our ‘jobs’ did
Basic income skeptics should consider which system failed when confronted with the current avalanche of suicide, descent into addiction, and hungry mouth these twin crises have created.
Canada: Green Party is more inclined to creating jobs rather than financing a basic income
Elisabeth May. Picture credit to: Mission City Record. Elisabeth May, Canada’s Green Party leader has spoken...
United States: Presidential candidate Bill de Blasio chooses a Federal Jobs Guarantee over a UBI
Bill de Blasio. Picture credit to: UPI. Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and Democratic Party candidate for the...
Combining UBI and a job offer scheme to end poverty
A public sector job offer at minimum wage, combined with UBI of could raise all households above poverty when combined with improved disability and housing benefits.
David Graeber: New book “Bullshit jobs”
David Graeber. Picture credit to: RSA. David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics,...
Interview: UBI and ‘Job Culture’ (Part Two)
Kate McFarland interviews D. JoAnne Swanson of The Anticareerist, discussing how Universal Basic Income may help address compulsory wage labor.
Interview: UBI and ‘Job Culture’ (Part One)
Kate McFarland interviews D. JoAnne Swanson of The Anticareerist, discussing how Universal Basic Income may help address compulsory wage labor.
The Future of Jobs: Working on Being Human
It is becoming normal to talk about robots replacing human labor, but we still have not yet acknowledged the magnitude of this change.
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.
CANADA: Deloitte future jobs report recommends basic income
Recently, there has been a great deal of attention paid to the changing nature of work. From rising automation to the...
A very different take on the question, “Could UBI be a solution if automation eliminates jobs in the US?”
In this one-minute video, I argue that people look at automation and UBI in the wrong way. We must not wait until the...
UK: Pearson jobs report recommends “stop agonizing about machines taking our jobs”
In recent years, basic income has found support across the political spectrum. While some have justified it as a human...
Felix FitzRoy and Jim Jin, “Basic Income and a Public Job Offer: Complementary Policies to Reduce Poverty and Unemployment”
A case for a modest (partial) basic income plus a local job offer.
Basic income and the ‘job ethic’
Both progressives and conservatives can be counted on to agree that having a job is important. But perhaps it is not humanity’s most important activity.
UNITED STATES: Joe Biden believes that jobs are the future, rather than basic income
Joe Biden. Credit to: GQ. Joe Biden, Obama’s ex-vice president, is confident that the reinforcement of the...
Polish journal Theoretical Practice devotes issue to basic income and job guarantee
The contents of the issue are freely available online, although only in Polish.
United States: Hawai‘i to study Universal Basic Income and impact of job automation on social safety net
Representative Chris Lee. Credit to: Office of Representative Chris Lee In the face of growing economic inequality...