Book Excerpt #1: Universal Survey*
“That is still wasteful given that you are not making much money at this time.”
The 18th Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress
The 18th Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress June 15 @ 8:30 AM - June 16 @ 7:30 PM Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College 2180 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10035 United States Click here to register
Diane Pagen joins the panel @ Income Systems: A Discussion
Basic income is a hot topic this year at New York's blockchain week. Join the discussion this evening to learn about four different OpenUBI projects: two cryptocurrencies (Manna and GoodDollar), an independent digital currency (Project Greshm), and a Sybil-resistant decentralized identity system (BrightID). We will kick off at 6:00pm with an introduction to Universal Basic [...]
Andrew Yang at Washington Square Park, NYC May 14th
Today, in 2019, we know the truth: automation is shredding swaths of human jobs, including at our drug stores, our clothing stores, and our banks.
National Priorities?
Is it lost on anyone that in a city where we say we want to end inequality, that all the kids who sell candy on the train are black, while almost none of the 895 kids who got into Stuyvesant High School this year were black? That's really, really bad.
Explaining U.S. Social Safety Net to Scandinavians is Utterly Embarrassing
UBI, and candidates who are committed to making it the law are where we need to be investing our energy, not in charity, tweaking failed Welfare "to Work" policies state to state, not in passing out sandwiches and Thanksgiving turkeys.
16th Annual U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Congress Opening Session
Organized by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Canada, and Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, Associate Professor Michael A. Lewis, this year’s Congress will bring together researchers, activists, policymakers and students from around North America and around the world who focus on universal basic income guarantee (BIG) policy. Kicking off [...]
Other People’s Hunger
We shouldn’t use a life threatening crisis like poverty as the basis for a public art project without any responsible discussion or call to action of how to solve it.
Scarcity, Misdeeds, and Violence? Or Universal Basic Income?
Andrew Yang, Presidential candidate writes, "A culture of scarcity is a culture of negativity. They attack each other. Tribalism and divisiveness go way up."