#basic income

[reasonsforhope]

Ireland Offers Basic Income For Artists

Ireland is trialling a basic income for 2,000 artists paying them an unconditional €325 per week for three years.

“The Irish government is offering a €325 weekly basic income trial for artists which will last for three years. As part of the trial 2,000 artists will be randomly selected from all of the applicants. The government definition of artists is broad and covers any creative or interpretative expression, including: visual arts, theatre, literature, music, dance, opera, film, circus and architecture.

The trial hopes to minimise the loss of skill and experience from the arts sector whilst also recognising the value that artists contributes to society. In addition, the trial is aiming to prove that a basic income enables artists to focus on projects without their projects being impacted from the stress of needing to look for work in other sectors to sustain them. Artists who receive the payment are also free to obtain additional work if they please without affecting the payment, however the payment is taxed so additional work may change their tax rate...

The policy was announced by Ireland’s Minster for the Arts Catherine Martin who is a member of Ireland’s Green Party. The Green party are one of three parties in a coalition government in Ireland. When launching the policy Martin said,

“I believe that this scheme is the start of a fundamental change in the way Ireland supports and recognises her artists and arts community.”

Martin went on to say,

“This pilot scheme represents a groundbreaking opportunity for us to explore how the role of the artist in Irish society can be protected and nurtured so we can continue to be inspired by great art for generations to come.”” -via The Good News Hub, 4/30/22

[kapitaali]

Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried Over and Over Again. It Works Every Time.

As AI threatens jobs, policy advocates for UBI see it as a potential way to cushion the blow from a changing economy.

[murderandnoir]

You can access it here

I don't know how many people who follow me on Tumblr are Irish, but the point stands, there's a lot going around about this right now, people pushing for support and our own right wing media pushing to end it. I was planning to just share my own story, as I had many times before, but instead I teamed up with @bossrushstudio to share our similar stories for how beneficial this has been. As far as I know, I'm the only cartoonist on the scheme, and I know lots who could benefit by being included.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Guaranteed Income? Alberta Shows the Need | The Tyee

The province’s ‘last resort’ welfare system erects barriers that lock in poverty, say experts.

As the number of Canadians finding themselves unable to make ends meet grows, the calls for a basic income are intensifying. Currently, there are two bills, S-233 and C-223, whose passing could open the door to the creation of a livable basic income program for which any low-income Canadian can qualify. Like the Canada Child Benefit or Old Age Security, a livable basic income should be available to anyone whose earnings fall below the poverty line. No means testing. No questions asked. No shame nor stigma. “It’s just basic justice that people have enough money to survive” and to ensure “that people aren’t living in poverty in a wealthy country,” says Evelyn Forget, a professor of economics and community health sciences at the University of Manitoba. Instead, now, Canadians whose yearly gross income falls below the low-income cut-off — which ranges between $18,941 and $72,814 depending on location and household size — are consistently stripped of their agency, autonomy and dignity when they apply for income supports.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada @abpoli

[wachinyeya]

Basic income can double global GDP while reducing carbon emissions, analysis suggests

Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, acco

[iwrotesomeofitdown]

Liebe Fischköppe und andere Nordlichter,

es gibt ein Volksbegehren zum Grundeinkommen. Das ist eine große Chance für Hamburg.

Tragt Euch für die Briefwahl ein:

Hamburg testet Grundeinkommen

Lass uns zusammen in Hamburg Grundeinkommen testen!

All studies for basic income have come back with very good results. Let’s make this project happen for Hamburg and get this off the ground.

[feministdragon]

Davala, Sarath; Jhabvala, Renana; Mehta, Soumya Kapoor; Standing, Guy This book reports on three overlapping pilot schemes in Madhya Prades

Concluding reflections

We initially feared that the actual level of the basic income would be too low to have a major series of effects on work and labour. However, we soon realized that the liquidity effect was likely to mean that the real value of the money was greater than it seemed and that it could unlock constraints to create mini- multiplier or transformative effects through the influence on work and labour.

Overall, the effects were positive, reducing the extent of short-term labour migration, changing the nature of child work, raising economic opportunities for women, curbing naukar labour, and leading to a shift from casual wage labour to own-account farming and non-farm economic activity. The money helped households to buy more productive assets, which helped to increase economic security as well as raise incomes.

There are also indirect effects to bear in mind, such as the impact of improved health and nutrition that make work and labour more feasible and less onerous. And one should not ignore the possibility that by providing a steadier, more predictable income, basic incomes reduce the adverse shock of temporary periods of unemployment. Households are also less likely to default on debt repayments and thus are less likely to fall into an asset loss cycle.

We believe the effects of the basic income on the pattern of work and labour were positive. Overall, there was an increase in economic activity and thus a beneficial effect on economic growth and incomes. 

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what's crazy about this for me is that the basic income given was only one third of their normal yearly income