Basic Income PodcastGiveDirectly Continues to Expand the Cash Transfer MapThe non-profit GiveDirectly has arguably done more to advance the cause of basic income and cash transfers than any other in the modern…Nov 30, 2018Nov 30, 2018
Basic Income PodcastGetting specific about a U.S. social wealth fundOne of the ideas that gets mentioned with some frequency in the basic income space is that of a social wealth fund, similar to Alaska’s…Nov 14, 2018Nov 14, 2018
Basic Income PodcastThe Stockton Basic Income Trial’s Knowns and UnknownsThe Stockton basic income experiment hasn’t started yet, but it is already making waves in the policy world. This trial has both an…Oct 24, 20181Oct 24, 20181
Basic Income PodcastWhy “Alaska for America” could workIn her post-election memoir, Hillary Clinton revealed that she considered a universal dividend program modeled after Alaska’s Permanent…Oct 11, 20182Oct 11, 20182
Basic Income PodcastBasic Income is about much more than AutomationBasic income and automation are so intertwined in the current zeitgeist, that conversations about one often slip into discussions of the…Sep 28, 20182Sep 28, 20182
Basic Income PodcastinDataDrivenInvestorWhat Basic Income would mean for the business worldWe tend to talk about basic income from a moral or humanitarian perspective, and for good reason. The benefits of a UBI to the poorest…Aug 29, 20184Aug 29, 20184
Basic Income PodcastWhat you can do about the Ontario basic income trialsRecently, we got word that the Ford Administration in Ontario plans to cancel the basic income trials happening there now. This is not only…Aug 17, 2018Aug 17, 2018
Basic Income PodcastDomestic Workers are Still Suffering from Old Attitudes about “Women’s Work”Domestic workers have hard, important, often thankless jobs, and yet they are often treated as something less than real workers. This was…Jun 14, 2018Jun 14, 2018
Basic Income PodcastBasic Income and the Paradox of PropertyHow should we think about land, and how does our concept of it effect our thinking on basic income? These are some of the core questions we…Jun 8, 2018Jun 8, 2018
Basic Income PodcastWhat’s Really Going on with Finland’s Basic Income TrialFinland began basic income trials in 2017 as a way to test if the program is more effective than traditional unemployment benefits in…Jun 7, 2018Jun 7, 2018