119 Search Results Found For: "universal basic income"

• Citizen’s income: Could it work in Scotland?

  BBC News, by Phillip Sim  The Scottish government’s draft budget for the coming year includes funds to study the idea of setting up a “citizen’s income”. So what is a basic in
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• Basic income pilot considered in Glasgow

  Basic income pilot considered in Glasgow BBC News 16.02.17   Glasgow could be the first city in the UK to pilot a basic universal income for every citizen.   The local council is to fund a &
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• The Scottish pioneer whose plan for a basic income could transform Britain

  The Scottish pioneer whose plan for a basic income could transform Britain The Guardian 08.01.17 In the city where Adam Smith developed the free-market theories that inspired Thatcherism nearly 300 ye
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• Finland trials basic income for unemployed

  Finland trials basic income for unemployed The Guardian 03.01.17 Finland has become the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens an unconditional monthly sum, in a social experiment
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• ‘Addressing the needs of children and young people in Scotland: the potential of a Basic Income

  ‘Addressing the needs of children and young people in Scotland: the potential of a Basic Income’ 14th Kilbrandon Lecture – University of Strathclyde 12.10.16   Professor Sir Jim
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• A Basic Income Would Upend America’s Work Ethic – and That’s a Good Thing

  A Basic Income Would Upend America’s Work Ethic – and That’s a Good Thing The Nation, by Fred Block and Frances Fox Piven 23.08.16   We have been ruled for years
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• Finland’s basic income experiment attracts interest

  Finland’s basic income experiment attracts interest Nordic Labour Journal, by Carl-Gustav Lindén 17.04.16   Finland’s planned empirical experiment with a universal basic income
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• Dutch city plans to pay citizens a ‘basic income’, and Greens say it could work in the UK

  Dutch city plans to pay citizens a ‘basic income’, and Greens say it could work in the UK The Guardian, by Daniel Boffey 26.12.15   It’s an idea whose adherents over the centuri
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• Citizen’s Income

  Citizen’s Income The Scottish Greens August 2014   A Citizen’s Income is a new way of providing social security.     A Citizen’s Income would sweep away almost all ben
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• Move Your Money helping social enterprise to offer alternative to ‘useless’ Basic Bank Accounts

  Move Your Money helping social enterprise to offer alternative to ‘useless’ Basic Bank Accounts Economic Voice 29.08.12 Move Your Money has teamed up with London Rebuilding Society, a soci
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• Will the US take the path to radical change post-pandemic?

  The Financial Times, by Simon Kuper 4th June 2020 A mix of pre-existing discontent, a bad case of Covid-19 and a looming election could prove revolutionary. In March 1917, Vladimir Lenin was living in
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• Schumpeter’s virus: How “creative destruction” could save the coronavirus economy

  Prospect Magazine, by Barry Eichengreen 26th May 2020 The Great Depression-era economist understood that productive new businesses can rise from the rubble. But for that to happen, the old cannot be
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