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

By Karl Widerquist  Posted by Scott Baker (about the submitter)       (Page 3 of 29 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   No comments

The BI literature posts on BI News are here: http://binews.org/category/bi-literature/.

Events posts are here: http://binews.org/category/events/. Links are here: http://binews.org/category/links/.

 

Persuasion is the third goal of BI News. The features section, which includes blogs, opinion pieces, book reviews, and occasional podcasts and interviews, performs this function. This section provides an outlet for BIEN members to write their opinions about BIG, sometimes directed at other supporters, sometimes directed at a wider audience. Arguing for the cause of BIG has obvious value, but there are several reasons why this goal ranks third. The readership of BI News is overwhelmingly made up of people who already support BIG. They're already convinced; their primary need is for information. Another reason this is a lesser important goal is that there are many places around the world where people can publish features having to do with BIG, but only BI News is pursing the first to goals. However, making the case for BIG is valuable. BI News provides a place for BIEN members and supporters to become a part of that dialogue. Right now we're running an average of about one feature per week, but we are hoping to increase that substantially, perhaps eventually to one feature per day.

 

A list of the latest features can be found on the homepage of BI News: http://binews.org/. Blogs can be found by going to the Features dropdown list and selecting blogs.

 

To keep up with these goals, BI News maintains a website, updated at least once a day, and a regular newsletter, collecting the recent stories from the website. As we expand our volunteer base, we will expand what we do.

-Karl Widerquist, Doha, Qatar, March 2014

 

2. Volunteers needed for BI News

The discussion of BIG is growing and BI News is fighting hard to keep up. We need volunteers to help us keep pace. Primarily we need people with one of two skills. We need writers to help us report the news and we need people with website-design skills to help us improve how we present it. Among our writers, we need people with language skills. The languages we need most are English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian, but if news is happening in any language, we need writers to report on it. If you would like to help spread the word about BIG, please contact the editor of BI News, Karl Widerquist @widerquist.com>.

 

 

3. Former Treasury Secretary Endorses BIG calling it "almost inevitable" (Editor's Note - Robert Reich was a former Labor Secretary, not Treasury Secretary)

Robert Reich, Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and now a popular author and commentator, recently endorsed a basic income guarantee (BIG) in response to a question from the floor during a talk about San Francisco State University. His first answer to the question of whether he would support a basic income large enough to eliminate poverty was simple, "yeah." He then went on to discuss how technology is replacing so many jobs that they are making some level of income guarantee "almost inevitable."

 

Reich's remarks on BIG can be see at the 46-minute mark of this video: San Francisco State University. "Inequality for All: A Q & A with Robert Reich" YouTube. ttp://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImXjgdIVsWE

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