The case for a basic income for farmers
September 9, 2024
Steph Wetherell talks to farmers about whether a universal wage is the answer to growing unease and uncertainty in the sector
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Steph Wetherell talks to farmers about whether a universal wage is the answer to growing unease and uncertainty in the sector
Labour should be emboldened by the popularity of policies aimed at breaking down inequality: now’s the time for ambition
The 40-year trickle-down delusion, fashioned by right-wing economists, politicians, and financial experts, has deprived average Americans of the means to support their families in a comfortable, debt-free manner. It was planned. It’s insidious. It’s ongoing. And it should outrage every last one of us.
Many people have imagined a workers’ revolution that cuts out property owners and establishes a true circle-of-obligation. As always, let me see the plan. Maybe it solves some of the problems I’ve mentioned, but no plan solves the insider-outsider problems inherent in politics. Wishful thinking about everyone becoming better people after the revolution won’t make the self-serving bias of people in power go away.
Guaranteed basic income could make a dent in the ongoing homelessness crisis in San Francisco, advocates say, and an ongoing program seeks to measure the impact of monthly payments to people who are currently unhoused.
By: Claire Benny See original post here. Income inequality has been linked to poor physical and mental health in past research, but more recent evidence
By: Apoorva Mandavilli See original post here. Cash grants made directly to poor families or individuals have led to fewer deaths among women and young
By: JANAE BOWENS and KONNER MCINTIRE See original post here. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides nutrition benefits to more than 42 million Americans. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,
By: Sarah Holder See original post here. A monthly cash payment program for new mothers in New York is going from pilot project to permanent
By: JANET SHAMLIAN See original post here. Adriana Flores, a single mother of two boys, watches every dollar, and even though she works full-time as
By: Pete Syme See original post here. A co-founder of DeepMind, the AI company bought by Google in 2014, warned about AI-related job losses. Mustafa
By Janelle Nanos See original post here. For years, Mabell Acevedo struggled each month to make ends meet. As a single mom, she needed to
By: LINDSEY ROSE BULLINGER See original post here. In 2021, when many American families were suffering from the financial fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal
By: Alexa Spencer See original post here. Imagine being a mother of teenage sons who beg you to play sports, but you can’t afford to buy
By: Ethan Dodd See original post here. KEY POINTS: Corporations have long wanted the US government to just get out of the way. Now, some
By: Phoebe Stephens | Catherine Sweet | Hannah L. Harrison See original post here. For the roughly 11 million Canadians who qualify, it will provide
By: Kofi Kenyatta See original post here. Arlyssa Heard struggles with crushing debt from student loans and a high-interest car payment. The single mom was
Businesswire: April 18, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity (the “Fund”), a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the understanding, acceptance, and implementation of Universal
A campaigner says she hopes a Universal Basic Income (UBI) Scheme could be “this generation’s version of the NHS”. By: Esme Ashcroft See original post
When Stockton, California, resident Gregory Gauthier had to take time off from his job at auto dismantler Pick-n-Pull to recover from hernia surgery, he was
By: ASGHAR ADELZADEH See original post here. Daan Steenkamp, Hylton Hollander and Roy Havemann’s article criticising the recent IEJ-ADRS research on Basic Income Grant (BIG) pathway
By: Chris Gilili See original post here. Ahead of the upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA), over 400 people, including members of civil society
By: Josiah Bates In the wake of the economic crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, cities explored universal basic income programs to help those affected
By: Shelton Bowman Jobs! Growth! The economy! Despite a divided political landscape, it is a relief to know that there is something, anything, that everyone
By: Tyler Prochazka Taiwan is making history by sending out a one-time universal cash payment of $6,000 New Taiwan dollars (NTD) to every citizen “young
By: Karen Jowers A new allowance, designed to be a safety net for lower-income active duty military families, is set to take effect Jan. 1.
See original article here. Editor’s note: In the piece below, guaranteed income recipient Ashala mentions the federal government’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or TANF, which
By: Austin Huguelet ST. LOUIS — Mayor Tishaura O. Jones’ administration is pushing a plan to pay for a guaranteed basic income program, a signature
By: CALEB BRENNAN When the COVID-19 lockdown went into effect, child welfare advocates and pediatric experts feared that child abuse that would have otherwise been noticed would
By: Ella Smyth 2,000 artists across Ireland were recently selected to receive €325 a week as part of the new Basic Income for the Arts
By: Lorie Konish When Natacha Chavez began receiving monthly child tax credit payments last year, it added $500 per month to her family’s budget. The
By: Hein Marais According to economic geographer David Harvey ‘labour is becoming less and less significant to how the economic engine of capitalism functions’ across
See original article here. Despite millions of people being pushed into hunger and poverty, 143 countries — including 94 developing nations — are implementing policy
By: Chau Lam As New York City slowly emerges from the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic that brought to light vast inequities in the
By: Cuba Houghton See original post here. The necessity of a black tax would in many ways be alleviated by a basic income grant. The
By: Barnini Chakraborty, Senior Investigations Reporter Former inmates who have paid their debt to society say they are still paying for their freedom — and that it is
By: CHASE HUNTER Sonoma County is launching a two-year pilot program for guaranteed income to study the impacts on reducing poverty and economic inequality. The $5.4
Analysis by Francis Wilkinson | Bloomberg Many affluent and dynamic North American cities share a great flaw: high levels of homelessness. But its prevalence in Vancouver
By: Sanah Ahsan We are living, we’re told, through a “mental health crisis”. Mental health services cannot cope with the explosion of demand over the past two years:
By: ROBYN DOBSON Over 70 families in Yolo County are now no longer living in poverty, living a dollar above the poverty line thanks to
By: Tony Messenger See original article here. When the late summer St. Louis homicide surge comes — and it almost always does — nobody talks about hungry
By: CKOM News See original article here. With prices still on the rise in Saskatchewan, the provincial government is now ready to provide financial help
By: Carol Paton See original article here. SA should make the R350 social grant permanent and raise taxes to pay for it, says the Organisation
By: Sara Luterman See original article here. The Magnolia Mother’s Trust is now the longest-running guaranteed income program in the United States. But the program,
By: Eric W. Dolan See original post here. New findings published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology indicate that economic inequality increases susceptibility to belief in conspiracy
See original post here. Of course, Sharon Fullilove and Diane Appiah are missing the $500 cash they each received for 12 months from the Gary
By: Judith Graham. See original post here. Each month, Seeley, a retired teacher, gets $925 from Social Security and a $287 disbursement from an individual
By: JAKHEYA. See original post here. Front and Center is a groundbreaking series of op-eds—published by Ms. and created in partnership with the Magnolia Mother’s Trust—which aims to
By: THE POLISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. See original post here. The ‘anomie’ concept – that the society is disintegrating and losing moral standards –
By: JOHN FEFFER See original post here. In the remote rural village of Dauphin, in the Canadian province of Manitoba, economists tried out an unusual
By: Michael Tubbs Original post here. If you want to solve poverty, you can’t do it without listening to women, and particularly women of color.
By: Greg Iacurci See original post here. ________________________________________ KEY POINTS: Pandemic-era stimulus checks helped many Americans pay bills, reduce debt and build savings. For some,
By: Ben Steverman. See original post here. So far, 2022 is on quite a roll: war, inflation, market selloffs, recession worries, virus lockdowns in China,
By: Carissa Wong See original post here. People from privileged groups may misperceive equality-boosting policies as harmful to them, even if they would actually benefit.
A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global survey. Original post here. The 2020 Edelman
Millions of families are scraping by, barely, on half of what they need to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads.
By: John Quiggin. Original Post: https://theconversation.com/the-greens-liveable-income-guarantee-is-a-serious-idea-the-major-parties-wont-touch-yet-179573 The Australian Greens have lobbed a large rock into the placid pool of economic policy by announcing a proposal
BY LEA HOEFER, ERIC REINHART, AND TANYA L. ZAKRISON Original Post: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/how-cash-transfer-programs-prevent-violent-crime.html Every night in Chicago, trauma surgeons face a scenario that loops on seemingly endless repeat. An
By: ERICA Original Post: https://msmagazine.com/2022/02/24/front-and-center-17-erica-child-tax-credit-guaranteed-income-black-mothers-women-covid-magnolia-mothers-trust-jackson-mississippi/ _________________________________________ Front and Center is a groundbreaking series of op-eds—published by Ms. and created in partnership with the Magnolia Mother’s Trust—which aims
Data confirm that the Child Tax Credit is more effective anti-poverty legislation than many of its policy peers yet it has lapsed. What’s next? By:
New Survey Reveals Rising Family Poverty and Child Hunger As Second Month without the Expanded Child Tax Credit Approaches Original Post: https://parentstogetheraction.org/2022/02/10/new-survey-reveals-rising-family-poverty-and-child-hunger-as-second-month-without-the-expanded-child-tax-credit-approaches/ According to a
When wages are stagnating at the same time that big business is accumulating a staggering amount of wealth, it is an indictment of our democracy.
Steady, the tech platform cofounded by Shaquille O’Neal, has a community of 4 million members made up of contractors and gig workers in need of
By Jason Lalljee and Ben Winck Original article: https://www.businessinsider.com/corporate-profits-drop-lift-worker-pay-morgan-stanley-labor-shortage-2021-12 Workers’ share of corporate revenues has fallen for two decades to the benefit of owners and investors. The
By Guest Contributor Original article: https://basicincome.org/news/2021/11/opinion-time-for-a-citizen-dividend/ Guaranteed income programs are popping up everywhere in the US. It is time to expand beyond local pilot programs and embrace
Protesters march on National Treasury after budget last week By Mosima Rafapa Original article: http://www.groundup.org.za/article/activists-demand-basic-income-grant/ About 80 people marched to the offices of the National Treasury
By Jessica Williams Original article: https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_3e90c5a8-4328-11ec-8e7b-6f8e7df5ad69.html New Orleans will pay 125 young people $350 a month for most of next year under a program that
By Hyung-Jin Kim SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s ruling liberal party on Sunday nominated its candidate for next year’s presidential elections, selecting a
Opinion by Amy K. Matsui The new Netflix series “Maid” — largely based on the bestselling memoir of the same name by Stephanie Land —
By Abby Vesoulis/Compton, CA and Abigail Abrams One evening in early June, Leo and his family were able to enjoy a treat they hadn’t experienced in months: a
New leader seeks to stimulate economy by wealth distribution, including cash handouts to people hurt by the pandemic By Peter Landers TOKYO—Japan’s new prime minister,
By Nara Schoenberg When Brian Johnson first started noticing articles about income inequality in 2016, he had his doubts. The son of an Army officer and
A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global survey. The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer –
By Sarah Ravani Oakland plans to start a guaranteed income program this spring for 600 residents — one of the largest such programs in the country,
“The results of this experiment will demonstrate whether basic income is a fleeting issue or a means by which to solve problems such as future
Families will not get cash or checks, but debit cards they can use to make purchases. 110 Paterson families will receive $400 per month for
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents. By Carla
The words in this video essay were authored by writer and UBI advocate Scott Santens. Video by Build The Floor. _____ To view original video
By Helen Lyons Working towards a universal basic income is urgent, says Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of the conservative Mouvement Reformateur party (MR). Bouchez spoke about
“Social assistance provided as charity rather than rights do not prevent poverty but perpetuate it,” 92 groups have said in a joint statement. Several unions,
Under the plan passed Tuesday, $6 million would go toward a universal basic income pilot program in Councilman Curren Price’s South L.A. and downtown district.
LGBT+ people have so much to contribute to our society—be it in enterprise, the arts or in our politics. But still too many of us
Opinion by Eric Levitz For weeks, a handful of moderate Democrats in the Senate have been fighting to prevent $1,400 COVID-relief checks from reaching their own
By Aria Bendix In Stockton, California, 125 residents got $500 per month, no strings attached, for two years. After a year, full-time employment among them
Ten senators want to make direct payments and unemployment insurance extensions automatic until the economy recovers. By Kevin Robillard Ten Democratic senators are pushing President
Unconditional cash payments to residents are more of a floor to stand on than a safety net, say these Carolina scholars in light of a
Anne Case and Angus Deaton provide a compelling account of the problem, but anemic solutions. The epidemic of deaths of despair will continue unless we
If medically assisted death becomes more accessible for Canadians, we have a moral obligation to make living well — through housing, mental health supports —
Sen. Dave Cortese proposes statewide basic income pilot; a pilot that includes foster care youth as they leave the child welfare system. By Laurence Du Sault
By Lorie Konish KEY POINTS A new coronavirus relief bill is in the works and it could mean a big payday for some families. New
The Green Party is proposing a basic income model that would give every Canadian a basic revenue source that could cover necessities such as clothing,
For so many people, financial insecurity is a constant in their lives, curtailing their life chances and causing chronic stress. As I have argued before, universal basic income could
We are public opinion scholars at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. We conducted a survey to try to understand how the first round
Bill C-273 is focused on framing, testing and validating different models of UBI implementation to get to real answers and data. By Roderick Benns Julie Dzerowicz,
Durham’s proposal to experiment with a type of universal basic income is moving forward. By Thomasi McDonald Councilman Mark-Anthony Middleton recently announced a plan to
One universal truth holds both pre-pandemic and now: The number one obstacle to escaping an abuser is financial insecurity. This article contains descriptions and discussion
By Melissa Repko KEY POINTS Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said more customers spent their recent stimulus checks on necessities, such as groceries, rather than big-screen
The expert panel would have benefited from a political scientist or, heaven forbid, one or two people actually living in poverty sharing the pen. By Hugh
One woman’s work to get UBI onto the screens and into the hearts of Americans. By Diane Pagen People who care about winning a Universal
Ulster County Executive Patrick Ryan, Tuesday, announced major programs aimed at helping families get back on their feet as the county and the rest of
Recurrent, direct payments should be a permanent part of the U.S. recession-fighting arsenal. Opinion by Mark Blyth Early in the COVID-19 pandemic last year, just one
UBI, at its core, is an unconditional cash transfer that guarantees a livable income regardless of work status. This differs from Canada’s current philosophy on
Giving people money is a proven, fast, equitable strategy to spur economic recovery. The truth is, we need recurring stimulus checks in addition to established
Maybe such fat checks wouldn’t have been as necessary if the country had a more robust support system for its people. Opinion by Noah Smith Americans
The human “fight or flight” response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace oppression with a system of care. By Zach
The prefixes ‘food’, ‘child’ or ‘fuel’ make life for 14 million poor Britons seem easily fixable. In truth, radical action is needed By Aditya Chakrabortty
The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year away from the working class.
By: HAYLEY MUNGUIA — Should the Long Beach government give monthly cash payments to its residents? That’s a question the City Council will answer at its
Wealth inequality is escalating at an alarming rate not only within the U.S. but also in countries as diverse as Russia, India and Brazil. According
Consider for a moment that from this day forward, on the first day of every month, around $1,000 is deposited into your bank account –
Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar is worried about the future. He is concerned that a coming wave of automation could put millions of people out of
