119 Search Results Found For: "universal basic income"

• State handouts for all? Europe set to pilot universal basic incomes

  State handouts for all? Europe set to pilot universal basic incomes The Guardian, by Philip Oltermann 02.06.16   To its acolytes, it is the revolutionary policy idea whose arrival is as urgently
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• Universal Basic Income: An idea whose time has come?

  Universal Basic Income: An idea whose time has come? Compass May 2016   Executive summary   This paper examines the desirability and feasibility of introducing a universal basic income (UBI)
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• Universal basic income goes to public vote in Switzerland

  Universal basic income goes to public vote in Switzerland The Independent, by Matt Payton  12.05.16   Switzerland is preparing to vote on proposals to introduce a universal basic income, whi
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• Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages?

  Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? The Guardian, by Sonia Sodha 24.02.2017 When he got the letter after Christmas saying he was entitled to
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• Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages?

  Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? The Observer, by Sonia Sodha 19.02.17   When he got the letter after Christmas saying he was entitl
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• ‘It’s disorienting’: former Glasgow MP left claiming universal credit

  The Guardian, by Libby Brooks 16th May 2020 Recent Labour MP Paul Sweeney awaits response to claim made as result of lockdown and losing seat in December. There was a moment, as Paul Sweeney filled ou
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• It’s time to talk about Basic Income. But first we need to work out why we want it.

  Fraser of Allander Institute 15th April 15 2020 Over the last month or so the, in the face of a health emergency, the economy has been all but shutdown so as to minimise the fatal impact of the Corona
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• Pope Francis says it might be ‘time to consider a universal basic wage’ in Easter letter

  Business Insider,  by Grace Panetta 12th April 2020 Pope Francis suggested that it might be time for countries to consider a universal basic wage to help ameliorate the worldwide economic disruption
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• Scottish basic income pilot gains support with launch of national conversation project

  Scottish Housing News – 9th March 2020 A conversation project which aims to kick-start a national movement towards a UK Basic Income launched this past weekend. A Basic Income would see a regul
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• Scottish basic income pilot gains support with launch of national conversation project

  Scottish Housing News9th March 2020 A conversation project which aims to kick-start a national movement towards a UK Basic Income launched this past weekend. A Basic Income would see a regular cash pa
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• Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy

  Basic Income as Common Dividends, by Guy Standing 15.05.19 This is an extract from A Report for the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. To read the full report, click here. 9. Concluding reflections a
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• Finland basic income trial left people ‘happier but jobless’

  BBC News, by Ashitha Nagesh08.02.19 Giving jobless people in Finland a basic income for two years did not lead them to find work, researchers said. From January 2017 until December 2018, 2,000 unemplo
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