Implement a universal basic income

Eventually, we need some form of universal basic income for everybody while they work and once they retire.

There’s no shortage of ideas for how AI’s productivity gains might be redistributed. Those gains could be redistributed through wealth taxes financing childcare, elder care, and healthcare. Or they could be redistributed via a sovereign wealth fund o...

What is reasonable to assume is that with AI, the share of gross domestic product that goes to capital will increase at the expense of the share that goes to labor. There will be fewer workers needed for the same level of production. This can only in...

In the capitalism of platforms and AI, we are all productive through our actions, our exchanges, our lives. Hence the urgency of an unconditional basic income, as a tool of remuneration, which recognizes this productivity currently exploited by capit...

UBI can change our egoistic concepts of work so that we understand work as an arena of freedom where we voluntarily put our skills into use for the service of others.

It supports a permanent universal basic income grant set at a level that sustains dignity, financed through redistributive taxation on wealth, concentrated capital and financial speculation, as part of comprehensive social security.

Mechanisms such as universal basic income could be financed through taxes on relevant companies or raising the capital gains tax.

The Greens would replace the current patchwork social security with a universal basic income-based model.

[The Women on Farms Project called on the Committee to] insist that National Treasury, together with the Department of Social Development, present the plan and budget to implement a Universal Basic Income Grant (UBIG) as a matter of urgency.

I’ve already signed up for mayors for universal basic income because I recognize how important it is to make sure people got an extra couple dollars in their pocket. Not just because it helps the economy but because it helps everyday people. For me, ...

As companies adopt these tools, they will require fewer workers to produce the same or greater output. Universal income would ensure that all Americans can meet their essential needs.

That’s why I’ve proposed the AI Dividend: direct payments to Americans — funded through a token tax on AI usage and government equity stakes in frontier AI firms, designed to automatically kick in on clear economic triggers.

Whether it’s ‘Medicare for All,’ the bill, not just the vague idea of universal health care, but the actual bill introduced by Congresswoman [Pramila] Jayapal; whether it’s universal basic income or guaranteed jobs or social housing; all of those thi...

My solution to, frankly, 50 years of economic inequality is a citizen's dividend or universal basic income. I envision a Nevada Permanent Fund through mineral wealth, Tesla and Amazon, direct payments of $1,300 once a month for every Nevadan paid for...

The idea of a universal basic income has been around for centuries. Now, the MU and many others believe its time has come.

However a universal basic income policy is financed, the time has come to think seriously about its implementation.

Therefore, protection in name, erosion in practice, MKP propose a universal Basic Income model, not a grant-based model.

Amandla.mobi proposes the expansion of the R370 SRD grant to include those unfairly excluded, and that the government must provide clear plans for the implementation of the Basic Income Grant (BIG).

AIDC recommends a Universal Basic Income Grant to ensure dignity even in the absence of a functioning labour market.

We believe that the state has failed the millions of poor working age adults because of its continued refusal to upgrade the R370 grant into a decent universal basic income, indexed to the Lower Bound Poverty Line at introduction.

The Council of the City of New York calls on the New York State Legislature to pass, and the Governor to sign S.7591/A.7920, to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing and funding a universal basic income pilot program.

My design was to raise the alarm around AI and mainstream universal basic income.

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

Eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal years 2027 and 2028 to conduct a universal basic income pilot program.

Eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal years 2027 and 2028 to conduct a universal basic income pilot program.

Universal basic income would provide everyone with the means to support themselves, and could dramatically change the welfare system, including addressing the huge costs associated with homelessness. Evidence has shown that it would alleviate poverty...

My Universal Basic Income (UBI) plan provides a guaranteed $1000 every month to every American adult, no strings attached. This isn’t just a policy; it is a permanent floor beneath the feet of every worker, parent, and student.

This means Congress must thoughtfully lay the ground work for Universal Basic Income (UBI)!

With increasing automation threatening traditional jobs, UBI provides a solution by decoupling income from employment, ensuring no one is left behind.

We must create a path to Universal Basic Income in New York State by expanding current programs and creating more of them.

We will pass a universal basic income so every American has the financial security and freedom to build their future.

Negotiate with the UK Government to secure the powers to introduce a comprehensive Universal Basic Income pilot.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

Canada and other nations should consider UBI as a means to address substance use concerns and future research should include reviewing substance use data as part of any basic income intervention.

Let’s say it straight away: these proposals are complementary and not substitutable. In the long run, they must all be implemented, in stages and in this order.

Adopting a universal basic income for all people can help society think creatively with new ideas, develop new industries — and free-up people to work on important future projects. This practical social support program can grow as science & technolog...

Our economy [Hawaii's] is changing far more rapidly than anybody's expected. It is important to be sure that everybody will benefit from the technological revolution that we're seeing to make sure no one's left behind.

We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things.

We’re about to lose some of the most basic programs we had, like Medicare, potentially. I don’t think there’s any proof that it’s any more politically feasible to hold on to what we have than to build on a big new idea.

It is very much the belief of us who favour a basic income that 99 per cent of people want to improve their lives. If you do not have basic security you cannot be rational

The hope is that policies like these can help people struggling just to survive and allow them to get on their feet, be entrepreneurial and be more creative.

A universal basic income is among the most promising ideas to address the vast gains that would be accrued by this increased productivity.

I hope to put in place progressive policies to help advance the cause of Human civilization, such as Free Universal Health Care, Free Tuition for Higher Education, a Guaranteed Basic Income, bring true Equality for Women, Minorities, and the LGBTQ Co...

Most importantly, I think it’s the principles behind the idea [of a guaranteed income] that matter. These principles are greater simplicity for the government, greater transparency on the part of families and greater equity for everyone

We usually focus on employment and production. Yet, much of the world’s population has no realistic prospects of employment, and we already produce more than what is sustainable. Basic income, however, separates survival from employment or production...

Building a political coalition around the idea of basic income would help end the resentment of those in work contributing to support those who are not able to work or cannot find jobs. Payment of a basic income to everyone would price workers into m...

What basic income does is set a floor, a monetary floor by which no one will fall below. So you want to guarantee that basic income for everybody.

I am very much in favour, as long as we know how to apply it without taking away incentive to work at the lower end of the market.

I am a big fan of work programs and universal basic income. Government and society has a role to play in ensuring a smooth transition between technological disruption. We can have a society where there are tons of jobs for everyone. There is always g...

The assurance of basic income could be a comfort to those who have anxiety about systemic transition; so that people need not fear losing their job in the oil and gas sector, because everyone will be allowed a basic living.

We'll have to develop – and develop ourselves towards – a society where it'll be possible to guarantee the income level and well-being of people without ravaging the labour markets. And the solution will be a basic income scheme – be it this one or a...

Moderates within the Labour Party shouldn’t be afraid to embrace radical ideas. I’m coming out for Basic Income.

The unconditional basic income is a way of shaping the necessary social change from preservation to new construction so as to become socially compatible.

But best of all, the suggestion is cost neutral, fair, cheap to administer and will always mean work pays fairly. Those are goals all political parties say they share. That is why a basic income should appeal to everyone.

Basic income – where we all are given a payment from the state as a right of citizenship – should be introduced.

Even if the robots don’t come, our labour market is so precarious that as it is, it isn’t working. That’s why we need basic income.

To benefit from the automation revolution we need a universal basic income, the slashing of working hours and a redefinition of ourselves without work

I think Universal Basic Income has legs.

A generous basic income would contribute to revitalizing a socialist challenge to capitalism

Utopia? Not at all. We need to advance the discussion and make politicians understand that it is the only way forward. And if we don’t move forward, we’re going to end up in a place none of us is going to like.

Basic Income smoothes work transitions whilst providing security in an age of potentially rapid technological change

Instead we should spend money where it’s needed most – our collapsing infrastructure for instance, health care for an aging generation and perhaps on a revolutionary new idea called UBI – Universal Basic Income. If more and more workers are going to ...

Ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen kann eine Grundlage sein, um ein menschenwürdiges Leben zu führen. [...] Wir müssen unsere Gesellschaft absichern. Deswegen die Idee des Grundeinkommens.

I think if we were to implement a Basic Income Guarantee we might save more money in psychiatric care than we think – since we compete with the prison system to be the warehouse for people who can’t make it out in the world and nobody knows what to d...

[With basic income,] people can rest and recover their freedom. Thus basic income would also unleash innovation [and relieve people from their] existential fears.

I completely agree that Universal Basic Income is a good idea. But I think that’s just the beginning of the discussion.

Yes. This is the idea of a universal basic income, and it was originally suggested by some French thinkers in the nineteenth century.

Universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial system careening out of control

The number one thing that would let more independent artists exists in America is a universal basic income.

One way to think about a basic income is as follows: it removes a currently binding constraint on time optimization for many individuals allowing them to escape a local minimum – that in turn lets the economy as a whole adjust much faster (and with f...

I don't have to work. I choose to work. And I believe that everyone deserves the same freedom I have. If done right, it's also economically superior, meaning that we will all have more wealth. We often talk about how brilliant or visionary Steve Job...

We will need to redistribute income and wealth. Such redistribution could take the form of a basic income for every adult, together with funding of education and training at any stage in a person’s life

Basic Income: a simple and powerful idea for the twenty-first century

AI leaders keep saying UBI is necessary. This pledge asks them to prove it. [...] We all deserve a share of what it makes possible.

Undoubtedly we're going to have to think really carefully about how we soft-land those industries that go away, so some sort of UBI, some sort of lifelong learning mechanism as well so people can retrain.

If you want to incentivise work at every level of income then Basic Income is simply the best system

I’m supportive of the idea of a basic income over the long term and believe that one day something of this size will likely be necessary to cope with the impact of automation and globalized trade on the United States.

The most compelling argument for the UBI stems from our evolving social and economic organisation. Radical advances in digital technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence will transform our society beyond our capacity to imagine at this point....

Basic income is the long-term answer to the increasing precariousness of ordinary people in a global economy that can shift their jobs to the other side of the world in a heartbeat.

In the 1970s, a five-year basic income program in the Canadian province of Manitoba called Mincome showed promising results. Parents spent more time raising children. Students showed higher test scores and lower dropout rates. Hospital visits, mental...

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI ...

On the left, you could imagine better social services, maybe a universal basic income, extended employment, insurance, other things of that sort.

Paying people not to work will only increase inequality and rancor. [...] If universal basic income is aimed to improve the objective conditions of the average person in 2050, it has a fair chance of succeeding. But if it is aimed to make people subj...

They present themselves as benefactors, they turn recipients of universal basic income into passive beneficiaries of a system they do not control and, above all, they shift the focus: Instead of questioning the concentration of capital and power, we ...

The interesting question is not whether AI taxation can fund a post-work utopia. It cannot, at least not on any evidence available today.

Universal basic income is not the answer to the impact of AI on the labour market.

Cop out. Bad policy. You want social upheaval? Try that. Everybody stays home doing nothing all day and gets paid by the government.

It seems fruitless to debate a bigger new entitlement we cannot currently afford to solve a labor-market apocalypse we haven’t yet seen.

Universal basic income proposals would guarantee a paycheck to Americans, issued by the federal government. But these kinds of proposals are rooted in a lack of imagination and a misunderstanding of human nature.

The argument goes something like this: technology is moving too fast, displacement is inevitable, and the best we can hope for is a generous safety net, such as Universal Basic Income (UBI), to catch the losers. Anton Korinek and Joseph Stiglitz, in ...

The most commonly proposed system, which would pay for that income with the productivity gains from AI, would take a massive effort to implement.

We need a strong and targeted social safety net. The building blocks are well-known: unemployment benefits, health care for the poor, scholarships for bright low-income students. Improving the social safety net is devilishly hard, but that’s the prob...

Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. [...] AI will change work. It will not repeal economics. The best response is not fear-driven universal depend...

No universal basic income shall be provided by this state or any political subdivision of this state.

So although I do not at all like the idea of universal basic income because I don’t think it solves many problems, and I think it creates others, I do like the idea of what some people call universal basic wealth where people are granted the endowmen...

We oppose New York State instituting a Universal Basic Income.

Instead of universal basic income, how about we stop taxing nurses who make $75,000 a year? We don't need to give her universal income yet — let's just stop taking money away from her.

Not universal basic income — [that's] the old construct — but this notion of universal basic capital [...] more challenging than it appears.

If we are to go on the offensive against the neoliberal agenda, surely it is the fight for free, expanded and accessible public services that should be our focus. If present systems of income support for unemployed, sick and disabled people are inade...

There are fairer ways to spread prosperity than universal basic income Better alternatives include universal public services and a minimum income guarantee

The idea of freedom, which is connected with UBI, is essentially the opposite: namely the loss of freedom. It is no longer individual citizens who take care of themselves, but the state. The citizen thus becomes the subject of an increasingly powerfu...

The oligarchs do not propose structural change. They do not want businesses and the marketplace regulated. They do not support labor unions. They will not pay a living wage to their bonded labor in the developing world or the American workers in thei...

A basic income guarantee is a neo-liberal strategy for serfdom without the work ... In addition to a Job Guarantee we also demand a Services Guarantee. It is no good having a bare minimum income if the dentists and doctors and shops in your town are...

The model being tested in Finland is impossibly expensive, since it would increase the government deficit by about 5 per cent.

Un sistema de salud gratuito y universal es en la práctica una renta básica universal no monetaria. También son rentas básicas universales no monetarias la educación gratuita para todos, el gasto en la protección del medio ambiente, el gasto municipa...

The Universal Basic Income is indeed worse than the status quo. In fact, all the fundamental criticisms of the welfare state apply with even greater force.

The problem’s not only income, but what people have to spend it on. Paine didn’t talk about universal income, he talked about everybody should have the right to a place to live, a means of their own self-support. That’s independent from income. Once ...

Even the US isn't rich enough to allow people not to work. Some day we will be but until then things like the Earned Income Tax Credit will help increase the demand for labor.

UBI's aim of a society of "free labor" -- or no labor at all -- is appealing, but it is individualizing and lacks coordinating devices. With a self-managed socialist job guarantee, free labor would be an associated and socialized labor. At the same t...

The right-wing version of UBI (...) is that the government should provide its citizens with a basic income at the subsistence level, while providing no (or little) further goods and services. As far as I can see, this is the version of UBI supported ...

I don't believe in the relevance of the universal basic income proposal. [...] Personally, it is a proposal that embodies the idea of the end of work, i.e. it will not be possible any more to ensure full employment for all. However, in a society wher...

Le revenu universel est-il un moyen de gérer la fin du travail et/ou une réforme sociofiscale pragmatique visant à rationaliser la lutte contre la pauvreté ? Pour les uns, il devrait être suffisant pour vivre, pour les autres, relativement faible pou...

The basic income will further divide society and prevent social mobility. Those who, due to their family background, have good prospects for interesting employment and high income will maintain their existing work ethic, engaging in school and study,...

Even as Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, heaps praise on a basic income, the tech giant does all in its legal power to avoid tax and dodge paying its fair share towards the social infrastructure it relies on. The left must not allow itself to be ...

A regular sum paid to all citizens or residents, whether or not they are in work, will not solve the problems of earnings inequality and stagnant wage growth.

UBI would replace virtually every program in the federal budget focused on low- or moderate-income people. No food stamps. No Medicaid. [...] I share the goals; I just don’t think you can get there from here. And I want to focus on progress we can m...

The argument is that, today, the technological evolution is destroying so many jobs that there is no longer any other choice than to decouple income from work. This argument is absurd for many reasons, but mainly because productivity nowadays is risi...

The underlying belief or dream is that basic income will provide a mobilising theme to bring about radical change. There is no evidence anywhere in the world for this. Similar proposals have been made every few years for the last 50 years and they ha...

You want your government to think more carefully about targeting programmes that help those in need, rather than universal. That’s a trade-off given the budget constraints on the public sector

Would the payment of a basic income to the whole population foster the same macroeconomic mechanism (i.e. a demand-led stimulation)? Yes if such payments anticipate additional production. But, by definition, the unconditional basic income is isolated...

Les partisans du revenu universel sont ensuite confrontés à une contradiction fatale. Si le revenu est «suffisant» ou «décent», son financement implique de redéployer largement la protection sociale, parce qu’il n’y a pas de source autonome de créati...

Getting a monthly cheque could mean not having to take the first crappy job that appears if you get fired or the economy tanks (...) Those crappy jobs might be easier to resist for a while but they might also get a bit crappier if employers know the ...

L’instauration d’un revenu de base impliquerait par sa philosophie et pour son financement la suppression de certaines prestations sociales : allocations familiales, minima sociaux, allocation de handicap, minimum vieillesse, allocations-chômage et m...

It took a lot of effort to achieve some basic rights, and now neoliberalism is destroying everything: the education system, health care... By giving money to each citizen you are transferring responsibility from the State to the people, so that they ...

UBI does not alleviate poverty and turns social necessities into products for profit. To truly address inequality we need adequate social provisioning. If we want to reduce means testing and dependency on capitalist employment, we can do so with capa...