[Craig Axford]
This short blog post provides an overview of the basic income
guarantee idea along with an easy to use calculator that enables
visitors to calculate the cost of providing everyone in the United
States with a basic income. By
experimenting with the calculator tool it's possible to see how
much various basic income levels will decrease poverty and how
much of GDP the program will cost.
Matt Bruenig, "How a Universal Basic Income Would Affect Poverty"
Policy
Shop, October 3, 2013: http://www.demos.org/blog/10/3/13/how-universal-basic-income-would-affect-poverty
[Craig Axford]
In this recent post in The Hill, Alan Sheahen
reminds us that a basic income guarantee (BIG) is not a new idea. Dr. Martin Luther King
advocated for it writing in 1967 "I am now convinced that the
simplest solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a new
widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income." In 1969, a Presidential
Commission voted 22-0 in favour of the concept, and in 1972 the
Democratic Party included BIG in its platform. Sheahen argues it's time we
revisited a basic income guarantee.
"The U.S. is a wealthy nation"A basic income guarantee
would establish economic security as a universal right."
Allan Sheahen, "America needs a basic income guarantee," The Hill, August 21,
2013
Linda Raven, "Basic Income Grant in Namibia"
Linda Raven, an American who works in Namibia teaching visiting university students, uses this blog to discuss Karl Widerquist's two talks on BIG in Namibia in September. Raven contrasts the two talks--one given at a symposium hosted by the central bank, the other given at a community center in a poorer area of Windhoek--and connects these contrasts to the need for BIG in Namibia.
Linda Raven, "Basic Income Grant in Namibia," Center For Global Education-Southern Africa, Tuesday, October 1, 2013: http://cgesouthernafrica.blogspot.com/2013/10/basic-income-grant-in-namibia.html
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