Graham Kent, "The Necessities of the Soul"
[Craig Axford]
SUMMARY: In this post the author argues that a
basic income
would allow artists to focus on creativity and fulfilment instead
of
necessities such as food and shelter.
Graham Kent, "The Necessities of the Soul", The Big Push Campaign, January 2014.
http://www.thebigpush.net/testimonial-graham-kent-toronto-on.html
FROM THE ABSTRACT: Given the low job creation
of recent
years, the persistence of poverty, and stagnating wages for so
many, it is time
to think of cash grants to Americans, according to the author. He
offers us a
historical review of past proposals and some practical new ideas
of his own.
Herbert J. Gans, "Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?" Challenge, Volume 57, Number 2, March-April 2014. http://www.afscmeinfocenter.org/blog/2014/02/basic-income-a-remedy-for-a-sick-labor-market.htm
Hollie Slade Staff, "Give Directly's Breakthrough 'Free Money' Model Grows As Evidence Mounts."
SUMMARY: This article discusses how the charity, Give Directly, which has an extremely simple model find poor people and give them money, has grown in success. Although GiveDirectly has received increasing attention, this article, like most other articles on GiveDriectly does not make the connection GiveDirectly essentially give recipients a one-time basic income. The success of GiveDriectly provides favorable evidence for basic income.
Hollie Slade Staff, "Give Directly's Breakthrough 'Free Money' Model Grows As Evidence Mounts." Forbes, 2/10/2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/02/10/give-directlys-breakthrough-free-money-model-grows-as-evidence-mounts/
Horacio Levy, Manos Matsaganis, and Holly Sutherland "Child Poverty Insights: Simulating the costs and benefits of a Europe-wide Basic Income scheme for Children"
SUMMARY: Basic Income for Children (BIC) is a universal income transfer unconditionally granted to all families with children, without means test or work requirement. The authors use the European tax-benefit micro simulation model to estimate the effects of their version of BIC. Their model computes tax liabilities and benefit entitlements for all households in European Union (EU) member states based on representative household survey data from each country. Fixing the poverty threshold at 60% of the median income, they find that a Europe-wide BIC-scheme not adjusted for price differences would reduce the number of children in poverty by 14.2% and the poverty gap by 6.2%. The scheme modeled in the paper, paying 50 per month per child, would cost around 18 billion. That is approximately 13% of the current EU budget, or 0.15% of the combined GDP of all EU member states.
Horacio Levy, Manos Matsaganis, and Holly Sutherland "Child Poverty Insights: Simulating the costs and benefits of a Europe-wide Basic Income scheme for Children," UNICEF Policy and Strategy, 2014. http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_71776.html
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