There's so much buzz around Sam Altman's basic income pilot, we often forget there are real humans behind the numbers.
Stories of people escaping abuse, taking a risk for better jobs, building businesses, parents getting more time w/ kids.
Here are their stories: 🧵
Tomorrow, the Senate will be studying Guaranteed Livable Basic Income.
Here are the expert speakers who will provide testimony in the Canadian Senate regarding Bill S-233, an Act aimed at developing a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income.
The @bien2022 exhibition also contained this compelling #basicincome video by talented UQ student/musician/director/producer, Liam Lyttle (featuring @humansbasic). 👏
Available here: https://t.co/A46SFOhoWJ
Reflecting on this virtual exhibition of @jessiegolem's 'Humans of Basic Income' photography that we set up for the @bien2022@BasicIncomeOrg conference in Australia last September.
Such beautiful and powerful images, @humansbasic
Still avail here: https://t.co/oeIwhSlk9T
Janell Dymus says Basic Income recognises people where they are in life, be it mountaintops, valleys or trenches. Basic Income recognises people's right to look after themselves. #UBI#BasicIncome#bien2022
BIEN Congress 5: Conference dinner in Brisbane the night before the Congress (Sunday night) with the Local organize committee, plus me, Scott Santens, Jessie Golem, Hyosang Ahn, & a few other UBI supporters ...
Thank you to Jessie Golem of @humansbasic
for talking to me about the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) that was cancelled by Doug Ford’s government even though they had promised to keep it.
For Jessie and many others, the pilot was a financial lifeline. #BasicIncome
BIEN Congress 66: Participants in UBI experiments are telling their stories. Jessie Golem is giving a powerful emotional account of her experience in the Ontario project (the one that was cancelled 1/3 of the way through).
"It was random. And now you're stuck with me."
“My rent would be covered no matter what I did and I was crying with relief” - Jessie Golem on the dramatic impact of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot #BasicIncome#UBI#BIEN2022
@jessiegolem shares her powerful story being a lottery winner in the 2017-2018 Ontario Basic Income Pilot. She was able to start and grow a business and pay rent. #UBI#BasicIncome#bien2022
Canadian MP @LeahGazan introducing bill c233: a national guaranteed liveable basic income, open to 18+ y/o inclusive of non-citizens without work requirements. "We can't afford not to implement UBI, poverty is expensive". #bien2022#UBI#BasicIncome