Is a Universal Basic Income merely a utopian concept, or can it be a viable solution that can effectively work in Australia? Experts weigh in.
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: Leila Patel See original post here. South Africa has one of the world’s most expansive social grant systems: 47% of the population relies on
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: Jewel Stolarchuk See original post here. Red Dot United (RDU) has proposed several measures to uplift Singapore workers in today’s challenging post-COVID world in its
See original post here. A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence was set to be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight
By: Larry Elliott Oxfam has called for immediate action to tackle a post-Covid widening in global inequality after revealing that almost two-thirds of the new
By: BILLY PERRIGO Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. Behind him, light glints off the rungs of a
By Rebecca Heilweil See original post here. A few weeks ago, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick told his MBA students to play around with GPT, an artificial intelligence
By: BENJ EDWARDS On Tuesday, members of the online community ArtStation began widely protesting AI-generated artwork by placing “No AI Art” images in their portfolios.
By: Naledi Sikhakhane ‘We will fight, we will soldier on even to the extent that we will ensure that we bring upon the introduction of
By: Hamish Morrison On Tuesday, Basic Income Network Scotland (BINS) will launch a new year-long campaign to pressure politicians to enshrine in law the right
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: Geoff Crocker The macroeconomics of universal basic income (UBI) is insufficiently addressed, both in proposing and in evaluating UBI. The UBI/macroeconomy interface is bidirectional.
By: Kate F. Mackenzie An Ottawa group is advocating for a basic, livable income for those living below the poverty line. Joe Foster, who is involved
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: Marie Burge Never before has the need for a basic income for Canadians been more urgent, and never before has the reality been in
By: Chase DiBenedetto As guaranteed income programs continue to expand and benefit thousands of families around the country, Illinois’ Cook County unveiled the largest one yet:
By: Hans Nichols The White House is engaging with Senate Democrats about making one last push for an enhanced child tax credit this year —
See original article here. South Africa’s National Treasury has voiced its opposition to a campaign by the Department of Social Development and civil rights groups
By: Sam Kim South Korea plans to provide every family with a newborn child a monthly allowance of 1 million won ($740), in its latest
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: Rhiannon Picton-James. See original post here. A universal basic income, regardless of salary, savings and no strings attached. No repayments. It is being discussed by the
By: WIL ROBERTSON AND TRACY SMITH. See original post here. Basic income is too complex to implement. At least that’s the thinking in the latest release by
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: Sally Palmer. See original post here. The cold, wet weather of late winter and early spring was discouraging for everyone, combined with illness and
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.
By: Diana Bashur See original post here. _______________________________________ In a nutshell. What a regular, individual and predictable basic income has done is make people more
By: Minerva Canto Original post can be found here. We now know what happens when we think the best of people in lower income communities: They
By: Aditi Shrikant. Original Post: https://grow.acorns.com/how-a-thousand-dollar-cash-handout-ubi-changed-nyc-mom/ ____________________________________ KEY POINTS: Since July 2020, Shakeya Hudson has received $1,000 per month in guaranteed cash payments from The
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:
Working families and those with new businesses depend on payments to make ends meet. By: Megan Curtis | Special to The Tribune Original Post: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/02/03/megan-curtis-congress/
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,
SCOTLAND has a “radical opportunity” to introduce a universal basic income (UBI), with the next Scottish Parliament expected to have a majority of MSPs who
By Andrew Trunsky After years of fiscal conservatism and deficit hawkishness, the Republican Party has shown signs of a shift toward a more populist, pro-worker
We can’t be an anti-racist, just society until we have safe and stable families and communities. And for this we need cash. Let’s first provide
Capitalism is the problem, social movements denounce on World Health Day. By Michele de Mello, translated by Ítalo Piva On April 7th, World Health Day,
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
By Greg Iacurci Nearly 2.4 million Americans were unemployed for at least a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which issued its March
What doxo’s data tells us about how consumers are spending their third $1400 stimulus check. doxo’s data shows that once stimulus checks started to appear
The bloc’s recovery efforts are falling short of those in the US. When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented a landmark EU recovery
Should the massive federal assistance have been more targeted? We should be glad it wasn’t. By Robert Shapiro Both progressives and conservatives criticized the three major
The Automatic Boost to Communities (or ABC) Act is cosponsored by U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal and is a long shot to say the least. By Todd
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
‘Payments may be making their way into mutual funds and ETFs’: Goldman Sachs analysts wrote. By William Watts Stock-market investors poured a record amount of money into U.S.
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
The newly enacted child tax credit has the potential to reduce the number of rent-burdened households with children by nearly 9%. By Dana Anderson The newly
Spain will test a four-day workweek in a new pilot program this year, The Guardian reports. The government will cover costs for employers who offer
Biden’s stimulus plan contains an experiment in Universal Basic Income. The bill’s child tax credit has the potential to change the way that the United
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
How government-provided cash gives people the tools to solve their own problems. By Aisha Nyandoro and Natalie Foster As President Joe Biden prepares to sign the
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.
Instead of reserving CARES Act stimulus funds for municipal operations — like everywhere else in the United States — Skagway leaders decided to redistribute most
The American Rescue Plan would temporarily expand the child tax credit for 2021: allowing 17-year-old children to qualify, increasing the credit to $3,000 per child
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 —
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
A decline in funding and changes in the workplace — and how long people are out of work — have left a program unequal to
Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, sometimes called “MGI,” was founded in June 2020 by founded by then-mayor of Stockton, California, Michael D. Tubbs. Meet the
Coloradans need real relief now. The more we can do to support struggling families and help boost our local communities now, the stronger we’ll bounce
Dr. King taught us that direct cash payments are a smart response to poverty and mass unemployment. In this crisis, we need to heed that
While enrolled in a universal basic income program, Patricia Jackson had access to a reserve of $3,200 that she was able to draw from when
Universal Basic Income did not disincentivize people from working. The results of this study contradict one of the most common arguments against UBI. By: Patrick Hoff
Yang is a Democratic candidate for mayor of New York. King is a civil and human rights advocate. By: Andrew Yang and Martin Luther King III
Andrew Yang favors a modified version of universal basic income that would provide payments of about $2,000 to a half million of the poorest New
Prioritizing direct monthly payments isn’t just good policy—it’s good politics. By: Sean Kline and Jim Pugh “It’s not hyperbole, you can change America,” President-elect Joe Biden told
By: Scott Santens Everything seemed to change in 2020, and yet in very important ways, what really needed to didn’t, which is what must change. It’s
Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, a former presidential contender, officially declared his run for New York City mayor. In a campaign video released late Wednesday on
By: Li Jin Summary: Right now, the creative economy relies on platforms like YouTube and Instagram and it looks a lot like the U.S. economy —
The ECI is asking for a universal basic income that is unconditional, individual, and of a quantity that is at least equal to the poverty
