Brian Easton, “<a href=”https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/what-is-the-problem-with-a-universal-minimum-income”>What is the problem with a Universal Minimum Income</a>”, <em>Pundit</em>, 18 February 2005
Writing from New Zealand, Simmons writes on ten types of people who would especially benefit from a basic income: one income families, caregivers and volunteers, beneficiaries, students, the working poor, people without children, welfare organizations, anyone on infrequent income, anyone chasing their dream, and taxpayers.
Geoff Simmons, “Ten Types of People Who Would be Better Off with an Unconditional Basic Income”, Gareth’s World, 21 January 2015.
The Universal Income Trust, originally set up in 1998 is a non-profit organisation ‘dedicated to the promotion of economic rights’. Their mission statement says their purpose is to ‘educate about the social, environmental, and economic benefits of universal income systems and how they would act as an integral part of any sustainable future’.
UBI - Forward
Keith Rankin, “Universal Basic Income and Labour Policy”, The Daily Blog, 2014 November 21
The organization’s “About” section:
“Citizens Online Income New Zealand (COINZ) is a Christchurch-based charitable organization promoting the use of digital currency to alleviate inequality. Two programs we have initiated are the World Citizen Fund, which distributes Bitcoins, and the Kiwicoin program, a digital currency pegged to the NZ dollar and used for basic income.”
COINZ homepage can be found here.
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