User:Sj/Basic

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

• 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)

Broad welfare

• Mideast - Qatar, et al.
• Asia - Brunei
• Nord - Sweden

Recent research

• US in the 1970s
• Canada (2011 paper)
• Brasil

Pending research

• YComb & Sam Altman

• 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)

External links

• US BIG (w/ further bibliography)

Footnotes