Articles Archive for March 2009

Lot’s of talk this past week about health care reform. Too bad President Obama and the health care reform advocates haven’t yet joined the basic income movement – because a basic income guarantee could be the key to successful reform. Obama has pledged to enact health care reform this year: “When times were good, we [...]

The big news today is neither new nor unexpected: Big job losses. Another 650,000 in February, on top of 600,000 in January. That puts total job losses at more than 4.4 million since December 2007. The unemployment rate is now 8.1 percent, which is higher than its been in more than 25 years. The numbers [...]

On talk radio shows about economic issues, a common theme is gaining steam. Callers denounce government bailouts and handouts to banks, Wall Street, AIG, GM, and so on — and say that, instead, they want government to give money to ordinary people. Give us the money! Not to the people who caused the problems! Depending [...]

Sen. Hugh Segal from Canada, a member of the Conservative party, strongly endorsed the guaranteed basic income in a keynote talk that opened the 8th annual congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network. (Here is Sen. Segal’s home page. And here is a direct link to a speech he gave last June at the [...]