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: 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
More people than ever before are turning to food banks because they cannot afford to eat. Food banks face a “pressure cooker” situation as they
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: Wayne Simpson See original post here. One of the most anticipated measures of the 2023 Canadian federal budget is the grocery rebate. The rebate is designed to
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: MICHAEL TUBBS I grew up in the shadows of a Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard in Stockton, Calif. My neighborhood was shaped by great
By: Kate Bueckert See original post here. Food banks aren’t supposed to exist in 2022. They were started in Canada about 40 years ago as
By: Will Brown More than a trillion aid dollars have been pumped into the continent since the 1960s. Famines have been averted. Hundreds of millions
By: HEIN MARAIS. See original post here. We are at a point in SA where hardly anyone disputes the need for additional income support. Worsening
By: Tanner Matthews. See original post here. Demands for “economic justice” in public policy debates are emotionally powerful, imparting a profound sense of purpose and
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: Sally Palmer. See original post here. The cold, wet weather of late winter and early spring was discouraging for everyone, combined with illness and
See original post here. A new universal basic income model could cut poverty by more than half at no net cost, reducing it to its
By: Lorne Whitehead & Jiaying Zhao See original post here. On April 27, Senator Diane Bellemare published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail opposing a
By: Sze Yan Liu See original post here. The Big Idea When people living in poverty in countries like Malawi, Indonesia, and Ecuador receive cash payments without
By David Clunie and Samantha Tweedy Original article: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/582092-child-tax-credit-payments-at-current-levels-could The COVID-19 pandemic and unprecedented nationwide protests against racial inequity in 2020 shined a necessary light
By Mercy Karuuombe Original article: https://www.namibian.com.na/107462/read/8ste-Laan-youth-demand-BIG YOUTH living in Windhoek’s 8ste Laan informal settlement are demanding a basic income grant (BIG), while accusing the nation’s leaders
By Israel Nkuna Original article: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2021-11-10-a-household-grant-is-a-bad-idea-a-basic-income-grant-is-a-necessity/ We don’t want a BIG out of laziness, we need it because, without it, our poverty will kill us. If
By Nick Maggiulli Why do poor people stay poor? It’s a question that everyone already seems to have an answer for. “The poor are lazy.” “The
By Matt Darling A recently released research paper from the Becker-Friedman institute has challenged the consensus view that the new Child Tax Credit (CTC) program would have
By Amber Cromwell and Heather Brown We’ve all heard the argument that “poverty is a choice.” The reality is that’s true — but not for
By Rita Gau Is it too much to expect to be able to meet your basic needs and have the resources to obtain what contributes
Actor Greg Wise has said it is time to end “toxic Victorian thinking” about the “undeserving” poor and introduce Universal Basic Income. By: Judith Duffy
By: Michael Janda. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a social and economic disaster of almost unprecedented proportions in recent history. But, for one group of
By: Spencer Daniels Uganda is a southeastern African country neighboring Lake Victoria, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania.
By Aliya Chikte and Gilad Isaacs Political will and strategic taxation channels could help bridge the yawning divide between the haves and the have nots
The most comprehensive study yet of the federal response to the pandemic shows huge but temporary benefits for the poor — and helps frame a
The U.S. economy needs a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages to keep goods cheap and services plentiful. By: Ezra Klein
The evidence is in: Sending out direct cash payments has been a full-blown success—and we can’t afford to stop. By: JIM PUGH It’s become almost
The disconnect between poverty and unemployment is not surprising but as of last month, the U.S. poverty rate has been on an upward trajectory. It
With 8.7 per cent of Canadians living below the poverty line and thousands more struggling to make ends meet, backers of this policy say a
Providing Canadians a basic income could cut poverty by almost half in 2022, based on the federal poverty line. By Jolson Lim A national guaranteed basic
‘Poverty is expensive’: Toronto doctor says universal basic income actually costs society less By Kamyar Razavi & Mike Le Couteur Global News One of the pillars of the federal
Even people who built rainy day funds over years are watching their savings run down to zero, with no relief from the government in sight.
The rise in poverty was triggered by a lack of new stimulus checks and the end of the $600 weekly unemployment benefit, researchers at Columbia
By: Andrew Yawn Adrian Perkins still remembers the feeling of not having enough. How it feels to gargle water dashed with salt and pepper instead
By: Lydia Godden – @Lydia_godden. Following 10 years of tory-driven austerity and the introduction of Universal Credit, our current welfare system fails to protect the
By Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava and Tammy Thomas Miles. — The pandemic has thrown millions of people out of work while mean-spirited government policies ended emergency Unemployment Insurance benefits.
By: Alex Heffron — Food banks have stepped up to the plate in the austerity years, and throughout the corona-crisis they are proving to be
Intuition is wrong when it comes to calculating the true cost of basic income – the UK can easily afford it. By: Karl Widerquist —
The nature of poverty in rich countries has changed. The sort of material deprivation common in developing nations is effectively a thing of the past.
Many of us working in food security recognize that a large portion of the folks who engage with our services are Black, yet there has
Whenever someone tells me if “poor” people had more money, we could stop the killings, I want to scream. Those are not “poor” people firing
Up to €3 billion a year in higher taxes on the wealthy and on business should be introduced to fund social welfare increases, a universal
This article was orginally published on June, 6 2019. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has released a plan to spend trillions of federal dollars on direct
After the article “A Critical Poverty Eradication Experiment in Kenya”, published in the last issue of the BIEN News Flash, we now offer this compliment
The earned income tax credit is the leading example of smart centrist policy. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the U.S. saw bruising political battles
This Sunday, all over America, little hands will prepare trays with bowls of cereal and small glasses of orange juice. They will leave trails of
Fair point. We control the titles though so we can just drop the Canadian doctor part and just have doctor. The conversation itself is about
Researchers are giving 125 new New York moms living on tight budgets $4,000 per year to spend however they want as part of a national
Automation is appearing everywhere. Ready or not, innovations like robotics, computerized algorithms, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, medical sensors and machine-to-machine communications, 3-D printing, and autonomous
Last year, when the Finnish and Canadian trials were, respectively, not renewed and cancelled, the momentum behind universal basic income (UBI) was seemingly brought to
More than a quarter of the people living in poverty in the United States receive no help from food stamps and other nutrition programs, subsidized
