SUMMARY:
Citing Virginia
Woolf's famous essay, A
Room of One's Own,
the author of this article makes the feminist case for a basic
income
guarantee. A guaranteed income would, according to the author,
enable
"women to make an authentic choice as to where on the spectrum
their
preference lies between paid work and any caring
responsibilities women might choose to
undertake."
Dr. Anna Hedge, "Basic Income and a Room of One's Own", Pieria, February 26,
2014.
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/basic_income_and_a_room_of_ones_own
Alec Liu, "How Giving Cash Directly to the Poor Paid Off in Brazil"
[Josh Martin]
Liu's article focuses on Brazil's "Bolsa Familia" program, which began 10 years ago and was essentially a conditional cash transfer to Brazilian families. Its success has left many optimistic about the future of (un)conditional cash transfers.
Alec Liu, "How Giving Cash Directly to the Poor Paid Off in Brazil," Vice, January 2014. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-giving-cash-directly-to-the-poor-paid-off-in-brazil
Alex Pareene, "Down with work! A pro-freedom agenda liberals should embrace"
[Craig Axford]
SUMMARY: This article makes the case that the recent announcement that the Affordable Care Act is allowing people to leave jobs they previously held on to just for the healthcare benefits is good news. Accessibility to a basic income, as well as healthcare, would give people even more freedom to escape tedious jobs they really don't want to be doing.
Alex Pareene, "Down with work! A pro-freedom agenda liberals should embrace", Salon, February 7, 2014. http://www.salon.com/2014/02/07/obamacare_discourages_working_great/
Andrew Coyne, "Raising minimum wage won't help end poverty but giving the poor more money will"
[Josh Martin]
Coyne's article largely serves as a critique of raising the minimum wage as a policy to combat poverty. Debates over how high the minimum wage ought to be seem arbitrary, and Coyne argues that those in poverty face employment issues from a lack of hours, not wages. Coyne classifies raising the minimum wage as trying to do "social justice on the cheap" and instead calls for efforts to enact a minimum income.
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