There was an almighty kerfuffle a few weeks ago over over the Green Party’s plans for Citizen’s Income. Many articles have come out both for and against, but all have missed the key question: can we afford not to have a basic income?
Consider the costs of poverty:
Speech at ‘Poverty is Political’, Green Party conference 1 March 2014
(Cartoon credit: Stephanie McMillan 2011 http://stephaniemcmillan.org/) The following is a transcription of a speech Barb Jacobson gave at the Green Party Conference in Liverpool, on 1st March, 2014. Barb Jacobson, Basic Income UK First of all I’d like to give my thanks to Keith Taylor for inviting me to speak at this meeting, and my congratulations […]
Social security without the surveillance
This past year has been the one when it finally came out in the open that we’re all under surveillance – on the internet, on the phone – 24 hours a day. It certainly wasn’t news to any who have had to rely at any time on means-tested, increasingly conditional benefits in order to pay […]
Basic Income is a human right! A report on the Demo in Berlin
On September 14th, Barb Jacobson attended this year’s Basic Income March in Berlin. The following is her take on what happened. When I saw the poster I was (slightly) afraid I might end up being an extra on a remake of ‘Gone with the Wind’: Liberty as Rhett Butler and Justice as Scarlett O’Hara. Liberty […]
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