LA County To Give Free Cash To Financially Vulnerable Residents
Can guaranteed monthly payments be enough to lift people out of poverty? The state of California thinks so. A new guaranteed income program in Los Angeles County, the state’s largest…
Naturalisms, wealth status and basic income
Pressenza Towards the end of the 18th century, the economist Thomas Malthus published a study linking demographic dynamics and the dynamics of food production. This thesis, later known as the…
The pandemic proved basic income works in the U.S.
U.S. Catholic In the early months of the COVID-19 crisis, more than 1,200 economists from around the world urged governments in an open letter to deploy an emergency universal basic…
Universal basic income: Wales’ trial ‘should include everyone’
Supporters of universal basic income have called for a trial in Wales to include everyone living in a test area. BBC News UBI pays everyone a fixed sum, regardless of…
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REFLECTIONS ON THE BASIC INCOME MOVEMENT AND THE NABIG 2021 CONGRESS
US BIG The movement for a basic income guarantee (BIG) has come a long way since the USBIG Network was founded in 1999 as the US affiliate of BIEN, and the first North American Basic Income…
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Is Universal Basic Income the Key to Happiness in Asia?
Stanford Social Innovation Review Recently I joined a discussion organized by a group of Japanese university students about making a career out of what you love to do. The students…
The European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic Income
Open Democracy The COVID pandemic revealed and exacerbated structural problems and inequalities that were already present at many levels of our societies and economies. One of the fundamental institutions that was severely…
Statement from Senator Pate: From Pandemic to Election, Where Do Our Leaders Stand on Poverty?
With news this week of police raids on homeless encampments in Toronto, and as rumours of a federal election swirl, let's each ask our representatives and candidates what concrete actions…
California passes US’s first state-backed guaranteed income plan
The Guardian California lawmakers have approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the US, which will see $35m used for monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young…
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Yuen Pau Woo: The basic income study that wasn’t
Straight.com When the British Columbia government announced in 2018 that it had appointed an expert panel to “test the feasibility of a basic income in B.C.”, there were high expectations…