Benoît Hamon, French presidential candidate for the Socialist Party, has offered a revised version of his much discussed basic income proposal, which has been seen by many as backpedalling on earlier, more ambitious plans.
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The French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royal, has expressed some support for Socialist candidate Benoît Hamon’s basic income proposal, and noted that the idea has been “unjustly caricatured”. As recently covered by Basic Income News, Hamon’s proposal involves introducing an unconditional basic income of 600 euro per month for young people in 2018, before eventually rolling
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(Image Credit: Le Monde) Thomas Piketty, Professor in the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the 21st Century, in his blog (in Le Monde) reports “there is a degree of consensus in France” on the provision of a minimum income. French citizens are for it. For the minimum income, Piketty says disagreements exist around the amount. The
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Renowned French economist Thomas Piketty, best known for his 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has been making headlines for his positive comments regarding basic income in a number of blog posts. However, the approach he proposes is not basic income as it is commonly understood. In a blog post published on 13 December, Basic income or fair wage?,
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The French Socialist Party has elected a pro-basic income politician as its candidate for the presidential election this spring.
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Benoit Hamon, a vocal basic income supporter stands a serious chance to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidential election.
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The French Senate recommends experimenting with basic income before considering its implementation nationwide.
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Socialist MP Benoît Hamon is making unconditional basic income a key component of his primary campaign.
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The theme of this year’s World Forum for a Responsible Economy is “Envisioning the economy of the future”. In keeping with this theme, one session–held on Monday, October 10 in Lille–will focus on basic income.
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For a second time this week and third time this year, the French Prime minister mentioned basic income as a possible way to modernize social protection.
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