#BasicIncome

Coel Thomas🌻

#Finland conducted the worlds first national #BasicIncome experiment and the results came out today.It was found that the effects that a basic income had on #employment were marginal, but the

1/3 I would say that the main problem with MMT *is* the theory. They're basically right about their most controversial point—i.e. governments don't have to balance their budgets.But they're wrong

🇨🇦 Basic Income

Summarizing #BasicIncome @ $196B/yrAvg cost $5,214 non-taxable20 Million Canadians Min $18,329 floor#COVID19EvictionsPerm Job Losses Masks & PreventativesEssential WorkersBI Helps #CEWS by #CreatingJobs#RaiseTheRates for #PWDRT & #S

I wrote about #jobsjobsjobs obsession a year ago. Its reflective of the minimal different between Labour & the Tories: both living in the politically safe, out of touch past. 21st

1) Everybody's coming around!It's such a relief to see the supporters of a jobs guarantee uniting with the supporters of UBI in the time of #coronavirus, finally coming together on

#PostCovid trend-The world economy will take over a year to get back on track. Billions need free food, water, power, and housing.#Covid_19 just moved the universal #basicincome clock to right

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ScienceNotDogma

1/6 There's two types of comments in this HUGE thread:- those who WANT #UBI so they can have life stability- those who HAVE stability and DON'T want it for othersWhy

The city of @MaricaRJ has just launched the most ambitious COVID-19 response in Brazil and arguably the world. In a new piece @BostonReview, @LeandroFerreira and I discuss the #BasicIncome policies

RogueSocialWrkr

INCOMING RANT.How can homeless advocates, who TAUGHT US that homelessness is primarily caused by poverty, send out newsletters about increasing funding for vouchers aka means testing and in-kind resources, perpetuating

The future is not a given unless we tackle #climateChange. Unfortunately, due to the structure of our society, I believe that in order to best that, we need to enable

*A Thread*People who follow me will probably notice that I post as much or more about politics than I do about my identity. This is not because I have peace

A thread@basicincome_uk @scottsantens It often occurs to me that we have many charities and they are all pulling in different directions. Would it be more beneficial to each charity to

James A. Robichaux

Good evening. I'd like to talk to you about the most important justification for universal basic income, one that doesn't get discussed enough, which is sad, because it is THE

Hologram Dreams🧢

#HologramThreadPeople were really into classical physics before quantum physics came along. However, quantum physics is weird: It says things about our existence that are hard to reconcile with our intuition.What

Ok, long thread. I've spent a lot of time looking for the answer to this, and I honestly can't find a strong "downside". The main answer is, "if it's done

Scott Santens 🧢🏄‍♂️

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.The