Britain’s richest people are wealthier than ever before, as the May, 2014 publication of Sunday Times Rich List, a list of the 1000 richest families in the UK, found. Almost 500 of the top 1000 richest UK families live in London, but just those families have almost a quarter of the wealth of the superrich […]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron, on the pre-election campaign trail, has vowed he will do away with taxes for some minimum-wage earners, by increasing the amount that everybody can take home tax-free, in a scenario that, at first blush, looks a lot like basic income. Under the proposed plan, taxes will kick in once you […]
It’s hard to picture that London, with its booming industry in professional services, could ever face the same fate as the US city of Detroit. The majority of London’s employed population (82%) works in the professional services (e.g. bankers, solicitors, accountants) and the financial sector employs one in every three such workers. And thankfully the […]
During a week of talks that gathered people in 10 different European countries organised by advocacy group Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a new UK activist cell called UK Basic Income met on September 16th to announce it’s mission statement. The UK group is targeting a simple, universal tax benefit that would permanently free the […]
The UK’s weakest adults have been dealt a blow by budget cuts as councils strip adult care services to their bare bones, a national association of adult careers has found. Some disabled adults and seniors lacking the ability to wash themselves are having to tough it out, reported BBC’s programme, 5 Live investigates. Almost all […]
Everybody in the oil-rich US state of Alaska will get double their annual Basic Income when they receive their 2014 checks of $1,800 “give or take $100.” The chunky state handout may double, officials say, jumping from 7% to 13% of minimum wage income in the state, but still falls far below subsistence. More cash […]
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