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Ontario's Right-Wing Government Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit for Canceling Basic Income Program

'Disgusting'; 'Short-Sighted'; and 'Shameful': Ontario's Right-Wing Govt Nixes Basic Income Project

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

It's not the pilot project that's too costly but poverty that is, says basic income advocate

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Debunking Pundits and Corporate Democrats, New Poll Finds 'Unabashedly Left' Agenda Extremely Popular

Jake Johnson, staff writer

New York congressional candidate Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez speaks in support of Kansas Democrat Brent Welder at Jack Reardon Convention Center on Friday, July 20, 2018, in Kanas City, Kansas.

The progressive policy shop Data for Progress "consistently found that voters...

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As Automation Concerns Grow, Support for Universal Basic Income Soars

Julia Conley, staff writer

"We don't need to threaten people with homelessness and poverty to get them to...

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"Curbing advertising, taxing carbon, a basic income, and a shorter work week" can be part of a strategy of "planned de-growth." (Photo: Generation Grundeinkommen/flickr/cc)

Universal Basic Income Needed to Break 'Addiction to Economic Growth Killing Us'

U.N. special rapportuer Philip Alston says a "basic income offers a bold and imaginative solution to pressing problems that are about to become far more intractable as a result of the directions in which the global economy appears inexorably to be heading."

UN Expert Touts Universal Basic Income as 'Bold and Imaginative Solution' to Poverty

Seeking Economic Justice for All, Hawaii First State to Consider Basic Income

Seeking Economic Justice for All, Hawaii First State to Consider Basic Income

Rutger Bregman speaks Tuesday at TED2017 in Vancouver, Canada.

Time for 'New, Radical Ideas,' Universal Basic Income Gets Thunderous Applause

Ontario to Launch North America's First Test of Universal Basic Income

Universal Basic Income Floated to Counter UK's Austerity-Driven Cuts

Universal Basic Income Floated to Counter UK's Austerity-Driven Cuts

To Lift Quality of Life and Economy, Finland Champions Universal Basic Income

To Lift Quality of Life and Economy, Finland Champions Universal Basic Income

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Christine Emba

Welfare for Those 'Unwilling to Work?' It’s Not As Crazy As You Might Think.

Valerie Vande Panne

Universal Basic Income: Why a So-Called 'Solution' for Disappearing Jobs Makes Serfs of Us All

Guy Standing

From Social Wealth Funds to Universal Basic Income, the Precariat Age Demands Far-Reaching Solutions to Dismantle Mass Inequality

Nate Singham

Obama Has Jumped on the Universal Basic Income Bandwagon—Let’s Make Sure It’s a Tool to Help Solve Inequality, Not Enforce It

Robert Reich

How To Prevent Future Trumps

Jim Pugh

Republicans' Food Stamp Work Requirement Is a Scheme to Punish Hungry Americans

Chris Hedges

The Oligarchs’ ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’ Scam

Paul Buchheit

A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household

Alice Evans

How Latin America Bucked The Trend Of Rising Inequality

Ellen Brown

How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation