Toward a World that Works for Everyone
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. There are so many stories coming out now, we may need to post several roundups throughout the day…. Several articles on UBI. UBI is becoming an idea whose time has come. Petition for Universal Basic Income Catherine Early, Ecologist, 26th […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. There are so many stories coming out now, we’ll need to post several roundups throughout the day…. Coronavirus outbreak may prompt policymakers to seriously consider pros, cons of universal basic income, says Stanford scholar Melissa De Witte, March 24, 2020 […]
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.” Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, March 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very big—to defeat the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus. This week, the Danish […]
A universal basic income could help counter COVID-19’s economic damage If we’re considering radical and fast action in medical terms, we should also consider it in economic terms Tim Ford, CBC News Opinion, Mar 22, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-universal-basic-income-1.5501938 “Be fast and have no regrets.” That was the defining quote from the March 13 COVID-19 briefing at […]
U.K. government will pay 80% of workers’ wages to keep them employed during the coronavirus shutdown Can the U.S. come up with anything nearly as generous? Talib Visram, Fast Company, March 20, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90480396/the-u-k-government-will-pay-80-workers-wages-to-keep-them-employed-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown It’s a remarkable and peculiar day in Britain when it’s announced that all pubs are closing, but that ends up not […]
Two stories: first Canada; then the U.K., each asking that a universal basic income be created now. COVID-19 Crisis Is Opportunity To Test A Basic Income For All Canadians By Daniel Tencer, HuffPost, March 19, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/vuddyqc The First World War gave birth to the progressive income tax. The coronavirus crisis could do the same […]
One day I asked Archangel Michael a question about universal basic incomes. In his answer he covered a number of bases. I found the following part of his answer particularly challenging: “[Behind universal basic income] is the idea of liberation, of freedom, of the latitude of each person to have flexibility in their choices. And […]
By Citizens Basic Income Trust, February 27, 2020 https://citizensincome.org/news/citizens-basic-income-a-response-to-poverty ATD Fourth World has published the results of its Understanding Poverty in all its Forms research project: an international project that is asking people in poverty what for them are its most important dimensions. A report has now been published on findings for the UK: https://atd-uk.org/projects-campaigns/understanding-poverty. […]
Good role model to follow…. The boss who put everyone on 70K Stephanie Hegarty, BBC.com, Feb. 28, 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811 In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff – and personally took a pay cut of $1m. Five years later he’s still […]
New Bill Would Give Nearly Every Californian $1,000 a Month, Similar to Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend Plan Aila Slisco, Newseweek, Feb. 21, 2020 https://www.newsweek.com/new-bill-would-give-nearly-every-californian-1000-month-similar-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-1488547 A proposed California law would provide most adults in the state with a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 per month, similar to the proposed plan of former presidential candidate Andrew […]
(Continued from yesterday.) Will this inflow come in small, manageable amounts? Decidedly not. Michael on another occasion called the flows “enormous, enormous sums of money.” (1) St. Germaine had this to say of the copious flow of abundance: “Once the flow begins, the world does not stop. Do you think the Mother creates and then […]
(Continued from yesterday.) Did you think we’d just have the Reval and that’d be the end of it? No, apparently the Reval is just the start. However we think of abundance, there’s more to it than just the Reval. Let’s start with the Archangel Michael’s revelation that there’ll be more than one wave of abundance […]
Work Women Don’t Get Paid For Is Worth At Least $10.8 Trillion: Study All work, no pay. Connor Garel, Huff Post, 01/27/2020 https://tinyurl.com/qss9sz5 Such is the logic of economic inequality. The world’s extreme wealth was, as we know, founded on sexism and racism. But here’s a perhaps less universally known truth: women and girls are […]
Canadian Basic Income Of $22,000 A Year Possible With Tax Hikes: Report Daniel Tencer, Huffington Post, Jan. 23, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/wjetnm3 But businesses and higher earners would face a hit to their incomes. MONTREAL ― A basic income of $22,000 a year to all adult Canadians is financially doable, and would nearly eliminate poverty in the […]
When I saw this story on Facebook recently I was amazed to see that it came from 2017. Obviously it did not make mainstream media news reports. It’s encouraging to see that making a world that works for everyone is not just limited to a small segment of our society. And it is doubly encouraging […]
