Le Journal du revenu de base : août 2018

Barack Obama, for the second time, has favo­ra­bly dis­cus­sed basic income. In his Mandela Lecture, which inclu­ded some hard‐hitting remarks about the rise of strong­man poli­tics, Obama dis­cus­sed the rise of auto­ma­tion and the dif­fi­cul­ties it causes for wor­kers. He fini­shed that sec­tion of his speech with the fol­lo­wing sta­te­ment : “It’s not just money that…

Alexander Solovyev, Dimitriy Sarayev, Sergey Vladimirovich Khramov and Irina Soloveva This Basic Income Conference moto was “Let’s win pover­ty in Russia toge­ther!”, and it took place in Moscow on the 26th of June 2018. It was orga­ni­zed by the com­bi­ned efforts of the acti­vist orga­ni­za­tion Basic Income Russia Tomorrow and the Moscow Communists (mem­bers of the Communist Party…

Picture cre­dit to : The Conversation. Approval of a uni­ver­sal basic income (UBI) has risen shar­ply in the United States. Karl Widerquist cites a 10‐year‐old poll sho­wing that only 12% of Americans appro­ved an UBI at that time. Now that num­ber is 48%, accor­ding to a Gallup poll, conduc­ted at the end of 2017 (on…