With all this talk of millions turning to food banks and the real employment problem that remains behind the superficially rosy picture, why aren’t the dots being joined
A Necessary marriage: Trade Unions & Basic Income
Unless trade unions start considering proposals like basic income, they risk condemning themselves to irrelevance.
Overview of Basic Income – Another Angry Voice
This has been reprinted with kind permission from Another Angry Voice and is available (along with a great many other interesting articles) here. It has excellent introduction to some of the arguments in favour of Basic Income and some of the challenges that confront it at both the levels of principle and practicality. Universal Basic […]
Documentary: ‘Basic Income, a Cultural Impulse’
This film-essay by Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt (2008) that introduces the idea of an unconditional basic income.
Open Letter to ‘Benefits Officer’
The following is a letter me and my friend “Steven” wrote after having received notice from the council that both his Job Seeker’s Allowance and Housing Benefits were being stopped. The reasons for the stopping were not given any more specificity than ‘Failed to Sign’. I assure the reader that there were such reasons behind […]
Citizen Income: Potential Ways Forward
On March 4th, there was held an, interesting and timely debate on basic/citizen’s income. The event, chaired by Labour MP John McDonnell, is part of a wider series of events that form part of a People’s Parliament designed to reconnect citizens with the political process. The speakers were Malcolm Torry, author of ‘Money for Everyone‘; […]
285,042 European citizens want the EC to consider basic income
The European Citizens Initiative (ECI)1 for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)2 officially ended on Tuesday January 14th 23.59pm, after collecting at least 285,042 statements of support from EU citizens in 28 countries.3 However, it did not succeed in collecting the one million signatures which would have obliged the European Commission (EC) to consider UBI as a […]
Nothing to live for
An unconditional basic income could help reignite hope in a large group of young people’s lives who feel they have nothing to live for.
32 Members of European Parliament support the ECI for UBI!
Thirty-two Members of the European Parliament from twelve countries have issued a joint statement expressing their support for the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) for Unconditional Basic Income. This calls upon the European Commission to assess the idea of reforming current national social security arrangements towards an unconditional basic income (UBI). UBI is a regular, universal […]
Gekko Politics
We can all agree that inequalities in talents are a fact of life. What we do with those inequalities is another matter altogether. The idea that we should organize those inequalities for the good of the rich and/or talented is an entirely different argument.
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