For
More info see:
Kerry Dolan, "Why Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes And Google Are
Giving Cash
Directly To The Poorest," Forbes,
5/28/2013
Jacqueline Fuller, "Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money," Harvard Business Review, March 28, 2013 http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/want_to_help_people_just_give.html
Matthew Yglesias' article in Slate (see separate BI News report) gives a detailed account of GiveDirectly and its reception: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/unconditional_cash_transfers_giving_money_to_the_poor_may_be_the_best_tool.html?wpisrc=most_viral
SWITZERLAND: Initiative claims enough signatures to trigger a referendum on BIG
A Swiss petition drive has collected more than
the 100,000
signatures necessary to trigger a referendum on introducing Basic
Income in
Switzerland. If the government certifies 100,000 of the signatures
as valid, a
referendum will be held within two years. The proposal does not
specify the
amount of the basic income, but it would enshrine the principle in
Switzerland's constitution. The proposal is controversial. Even
some unions and
left organizations have dismissed basic income as a "bonus for
laziness." This
proposal is one of several petition drives for basic income in
Europe this
year, some have been waged nationally and some at level of the
European Union
as a whole.
For more information see:
Jourdan, Stanislas, "Will the basic income
revolution come
from Switzerland?" Boiling
Frogs,
Alternatives, June 3, 2013:
http://boilingfrogs.info/2013/06/03/basic-income-initiative-switzerland/
Vogele, Wolfgang G., "Swiss parliament may soon debate
unconditional basic
income," NNA: News with a
difference,
30 Apr 2013:
http://www.nna-news.org/index.php?id=9&tx_ttnews%5Byear%5D=2013&tx_ttnews%5Bmonth%5D=04&tx_ttnews%5Bday%5D=30&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1054&cHash=77e5ad1fba7d00dc0923dcbddf4fe97e
Geiser, Urs "Basic income for all. Old utopian revived on Swiss streets," swissinfo.ch, June 13, 2013
GERMANY: BIG Petition given 30 Seconds by Bundestag
[BI News -- July 2013]
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