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A telephone survey finds 11 percent of U.S. voters favor a Basic Income Grant. The survey was conducted by Rasmussen Reports and published on Thursday, September 1, 2011. Rasmussen found that 82 percent of respondents opposed the idea. Rasmussen surveyed […]
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend is closer to a Basic Income than almost any other policy in the world today. The lessons of how it was created and how it became so popular and successful are extremely important to the Basic […]
The tax-and-dividend approach to global warming (which sets a price on carbon emissions, charges producers for those emissions, and redistributes the proceeds as a basic income), has been gaining ground since its endorsement by a conference on pricing carbon held […]
The Associated Press has been reporting that more than 5,000 and perhaps as many as 10,000 Mongolians have been protesting for a resource dividend. Mongolia is a poor nation, currently in the process of developing what appear to be major […]
The new Conservative/Liberal-Democratic coalition government of Great Britain has announced that it will rescind the one step in the direction of a universal basic income made by the previous Labour government. In 2002, the Labour government created “the Child Trust […]
According to Knight Ridder, the Libyan dictator, Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi has pledged to abolish the oil ministry and distribute oil revenues directly to the people. Kadhafi said, according to Reuters, “All citizens have the right to benefit from the oil […]
Overshadowed by the recent turmoil in Iran, the government has been making strong moves toward introducing something very much like a basic income guarantee. According to Hamid Tabatabai, of the International Labor organization, “In January 2010, the Majles (Iran’s parliament) […]
Review of Just Distribution: Rawlsian Liberalism and the Politics of Basic Income by Simon Birnbaum. Stockholm Studies in Politics 122, Stockholm University 2008: ISBN: 978-91-7155-570-0 Review by Karl Widerquist, originally published in the Citizens Income Newsletter, 12th February 2009 Simon […]
Review of The Ethics of Stakeholding, edited by Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 Review by Karl Widerquist, Citizens Income Newsletter, issue 1 of 2007, revised 2008 In the interest of full disclosure, […]
Book review of “Libertarianism without inequality,” by Michael Otsuka14th February 2005, Oxford University Press, 2003, 158 pages Review by Karl Widerquist, originally published in the Citizens Income Newsletter, 14th February 2005 According to the dust jacket, “Michael Otsuka sets out […]