We did a longitudinal qualitative study using the case history method to carefully map all developments and thus were able to study and describe the lives of the participants and observe changes in their behavior. When we first met the participants, many of them were living in in cycles of: poverty, debts, violent or criminal behavior, psychiatric troubles, and drug use. With little to no perspective of any improvement, many lacked the ability to see a future for themselves and some saw only death as a way out of their misery.
Now, though, as the country emerges from the pandemic, the guaranteed income movement sits at a crossroads. The pilot programs have created scores of stories like Everett’s about how a small amount of money led to massive change in a recipient’s life. And a growing body of research based on the experiments shows that guaranteed income works — that it pulls people out of poverty, improves health outcomes, and makes it easier for people to find jobs and take care of their children. If empirical evidence ruled the world, guaranteed income would be available to every poor person in America, and many of those people would no longer be poor.
Treize années d’espérance de vie à la naissance séparent les hommes les plus pauvres des plus riches en France. L’espérance de vie des hommes les plus modestes est de 71 ans, contre 84,4 pour les plus aisés.
Alors que la généralisation des démarches en ligne s’accompagne avant tout d’une réduction des capacités d’accueil physique, mode de contact pourtant essentiel pour les personnes en situation de précarité, c’est à un algorithme que la CAF laisse le soin de prédire quel·les allocataires seraient « (in)dignes » de confiance et doivent être contrôlé·es. Chargé de donner une note à chaque allocataire, censé représenter le « risque » qu’iel bénéficie indûment d’aides sociales, cet algorithme de scoring sert une politique de harcèlement institutionnel des plus précaires.
Les années 1980 ont marqué un tournant. Après des décennies de diminution, les inégalités de niveau de vie se sont mises à augmenter, jusqu’à un pic en 2011. Depuis, elles se sont réduites, puis stabilisées. Notre synthèse sur l’évolution des inégalités de revenus.
La perte de sens au travail est l’une des principales causes de « la grande démission ». L’économiste Thomas Coutrot détaille pour basta! une proposition pour renforcer le pouvoir d’agir des salariés au quotidien sur leur travail.
Carly Reilly and Zach Graumann were discussing the Critical Race Theory (CRT) “controversy,” “moral panic,” pick whichever term you like, and suggested at one point that a basic income (BI) would be a way to address some of the concerns of proponents of CRT. Unfortunately, they didn’t spend a lot of time developing this point, but quickly moved on to other things. What I want to do in this piece is dwell a bit longer on the possible relationship between BI and guaranteed income (GI), on the one hand, and CRT, on the other. Given, however, that one of the things currently being fought about in the U.S. is whether critics of CRT are really criticizing CRT, I’ll start by saying what I mean by “Critical Race Theory.”
[This book] Presents the global Basic Income debate which is now widespread Is based on conference papers, previously published chapters, and other previously published articles Discusses the aspects of a debate that are the subject of frequent consultation and discussion
Pour mieux imposer sa réforme des retraites, Emmanuel Macron prétend qu’elle est nécessaire pour mieux « préserver notre modèle social français ». En réalité depuis son accession de pouvoir, il n’a cessé de détricoter ce modèle. La nouvelle chronique de Sébastien Fontenelle.
In 2017, Economic Security Project helped launch two big pilots in Stockton, CA and Jackson, MS. We open-sourced the playbook and invited others to join the movement. To go from a distant dream to such a large number of pilots did not happen overnight, it took the dedicated work of people committed to this vision. And the ultimate goal – passing guaranteed income policies – is happening alongside these pilots.
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