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USBIG NewsFlash Vol. 15, No. 72, March-April 2014

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Carol Goar --Basic annual income' loaded with pitfalls"

SUMMARY: Carol Goar argues that by endorsing a basic annual income, delegates of the Liberal Party of Canada have forced their leader Justin Trudeau to choose between social justice and fiscal rectitude.

Carol Goar --Basic annual income' loaded with pitfalls" The Toronto Star, Feb 25 2014. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/02/25/basic_annual_income_loaded_with_pitfalls_goar.html

 

Chandra Pasma, "Basic Income Programs and Pilots"

SUMMARY: In this 13-page report, Ottawa-based social policy analyst, basic income expert and The BIG Push campaign executive team member Chandra Pasma summarizes a number of basic income and basic income-like programs and pilots in Canada, the United States and overseas. The report provides evidence of basic income's promise as a transformational public policy whose time has come. Click on the link at right to access the report in PDF format.

Chandra Pasma, "Basic Income Programs and Pilots," the BIG Push Campaign, February 3, 2014. http://www.thebigpush.net/campaign-reports.html

 

Citizen's Income Trust, Citizen's Income Newsletter

The first issue of the United Kingdom's Citizen's Income Newsletter contains: A notice of a meeting at the Houses of Parliament on the 4th March, 2014, Editorials on the complexity of the benefits system and on the Citizen's Income Trust's 30th anniversary, a main article on the political feasibility of a Citizen's Income in the UK, news items, a notice about BIEN's 2014 conference in Montreal, and book reviews

 

Citizen's Income Trust, Citizen's Income Newsletter, Issue 1, 2014. http://www.citizensincome.org/resources/Newsletter20141.htm

 

Duncan Cameron, "A living minimum"

[Craig Axford]

SUMMARY: Citing a 2009 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPPA), this author argues that a basic income guarantee wouldn't necessarily involve a huge expenditure by government to implement.   Providing a greater degree of separation between work and income might, as Eric Fromm argued, also greatly enhance personal freedom.

Duncan Cameron, "A living minimum", rabble.ca, February 4, 2014. http://rabble.ca/columnists/2014/02/living-minimum#.UvWUqkqP9tc.twitter

 

Ed Dolan, "A Universal Basic Income: Conservative, Progressive, and Libertarian Perspectives"

[Josh Martin]

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