Category:Universal basic income
Implementations include: negative income tax, citizen's dividends, basic income guarantees.
- Overviews of basic income
- Basic Income Earth Network since 1986
- Basic Income Guarantee network: BIG @ usbig.net, annual conferences since 2001
Examples edit
- Canada: Mincome (Canadian town of Dauphin, 10,000 residents. 1974-1979, 60% of LICO.) Research funds were cut, not completed; post-hoc analysis suggests mothers & children worked less, similar to findings of other studies.
- US: overall finding, guaranteeing poverty line --> 2-4 wks less of work/yr, mostly mothers & adolescents [so ~10:1]
- Urban New Jersey + Pennsylvania communties, 1968-72 (New Jersey Income Maintenance Experiment)
- Gary, Indiana (single parents)
- North Carolina, Iowa (rural)
- Alaska: citizen's dividend (currently ~$2k/yr, <10% of poverty line, from 1980s-present)
- Seattle & Denver Income Maintenance Experiment (4000+ families)
- Namibia: Basic income guarantee (900 residents of Omitara, 2008-2015+, not continuous. Funded by NGOs, limited research)[1]
- Iran: Since 2011, replacing fuel & bread subsidies? (cn)
- Brasil: Bolsa Familia, for families with children. Separate program for all citizens?
- Recent proposals
- Finland (in development 2016, 800ē/mo)
- Switzerland (proposed)
- EU-wide: 2013 referendum (250k), later Avaaz petition (80k)
Substitutes edit
- Broad welfare
- Mideast - Qatar, et al.
- Asia - Brunei
- Nord - Sweden
Analysis edit
- Recent research
- US in the 1970s
- Canada (2011 paper)
- Brasil
- Pending research
- YComb & Sam Altman
Historical proposals edit
- Charles Murray, In Our Hands – claimed $10k/y is enough & the current p.c. cost of welfare+overhead
- Peter Barnum, "Sky Trust"
- Nixon era --> Earned Income Tax Credit
- 1916
- 19c
- Thomas Spence, 18c England
- 17c
- prev urban models
- small group models (roving town, sited town, relig center, ag-cluster)
References and notes edit
- External links
- US BIG (w/ further bibliography)
- Footnotes