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Basic Income UK takes part in UBI Week 2014
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...
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Public bears cost of boom bust cycle in Detroit
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...
View ArticleTory tax cuts to take minimum-wage earners back to 2010
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,...
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A Perspective on Inflation
This article is a (possible? viable?) response to one of the few criticisms against UBI that actually holds water. My training is not as an economist and so this intended as a starting point for a...
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Superrich distort London property prices
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...
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Report on New Putney Debates (30/10/2014)
Following on from a report I wrote summarising a meeting held in the Houses of Parliament back in April, this is a report from a lively and interesting discussion that took place on the 30th October at...
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Possible Futures
The following is a report on a talk held on 14.02.2015 by the London Futurists. David Jenkins and Barb Jacobson spoke for around 50 minutes, followed by just over an hour of discussion. Comments and...
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Basic Income: Can we afford *not* to have it?
The Wage Slave Dilemma. Cartoon by Stephanie McMillan 2011 http://stephaniemcmillan.org/codegreenThere was an almighty kerfuffle a few weeks ago over over the Green Party’s plans for Citizen’s Income....
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Immigration & Technology
The logic in arguments against immigration often runs up against the realities produced by the huge technological advances currently underway in production. Are jobs finite and being ransacked by...
View ArticleUBI and alcoholism (or other substance addictions): exploring the argument...
During discussions on UBI I have participated in, some sceptics have raised the concerns that guaranteeing income in monetary allowance will contribute to increasing addictions such as alcoholism in...
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‘My life experience was tantamount to worthless’ Freelancing Precariat
Photo: Raimond Spekkingby Rebecca Ridolfo©Recently, I saw Guy Standing interviewed on the Keiser Report about his book: A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens. He is Professor of Development...
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Tough (the toughest) challenge
The ongoing migrant/refugee tragedy within and at Europe’s borders lays down a gauntlet to advocates for basic income: If the development of UBI within Europe depends on closing and (it’s always going...
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Supply and Demand
The connections between supply, demand and inflation are well-known. However, when a great deal of the work performed by a population is not obviously productive in any way and still gets paid for,...
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Basic Income: How do we get there? Thursday, December 3, 2015
Event with Brian Eno, David Graeber, Frances Coppola will be leading a discussion facilitated by Becca Kirkpatrick from Unison
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“Wheels on the Bus”
The Wheels on the Bus invokes a world of endless commuting where the rain never ends, the flow of people never ebbs, and the turning of the wheels (oh the turning!) never ceases.
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Speech given at Unison West Midlands Region meeting, 25 February 2016 by Barb Jacobson, Basic Income UK
View ArticleReCivitas project at Oxford 1 Feb 2016
The ReCivitas project has paid an unconditional basic income to members of a small community in Quatinga Velho, in the state of São Paulo in southern Brazil, since 2008. In early February Basic Income...
View ArticleBasic Income - the modern form of income security
Dr Simon Duffy of The Centre for Welfare Reform Although the idea of Basic Income has been around for at least two and a half thousand years, it is still unfamiliar to most people in modern Britain....
View ArticleLove and Basic Income
Love and Basic IncomeWhen it comes to discussing public policy it is strange that we find it to so hard to talk about love. We all know that love matters. You do not need to have any particular faith...
View ArticleMoney is a Women's Issue
After Thomas Paine published Agrarian Justice in 1795, for a long time thought to contain one of the earliest proposals for a form of basic income. He proposed a grant for young households and pensions...
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