L.A., Chicago giving away cash with no strings attached to residents in need. Are universal basic income programs working? https://t.co/NQkPoywwlh via @usatoday
It's interesting reading news like this and seeing how one of the things keeping housing from being less expensive is labor unions disliking modular approaches because they require less human labor.
We really need to decouple survival income from jobs.
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Karl Widerquist asks, "Who Should Own Property?" followed by the Basic Income Panel discussion with Caterine Lindman and Jessie Golem. Video by Climate Healers, September 20, 2020.
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"Most of the increases have gone to the wealthiest, not normal people who work for a living. It's your share of all the benefits of the automation we've had in the last 40 years. That's why we need #BasicIncome right now. You haven't gotten your share."
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Reverend Wendy Hamilton, "I see Universal Basic Income as a vehicle and avenue through which a small piece of one's dignity and humanity can be restored." #BasicIncome
"the existing benefit system, devised in a single-breadwinner, job-for-life era, no longer meets the needs of a population increasingly dependent on zero-hours and short-term contracts."
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Bald jeder fünfte kommt nicht in den Genuss der wohlverdienten #Rente – bei Geringverdienern sind es noch mehr. Statt Maloche bis zum Tod brauchen wir eine Absenkung des Renteneintrittsalters auf 65, in anstrengenden Berufen sogar auf 60 Jahre! https://t.co/x68x776Dlg