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USBIG NewsFlash Volume 22, no. 159, October 2021
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USBIG NewsFlash Volume 22, no. 159, October 2021

 
NEWS
 
Kathryn Goodwin, 29, celebrating the third birthday of her daughter Vivian this week in St. Peters, Mo. A single mother of five, Ms. Goodwin said her income rose almost 30 percent last year, despite losing her job.

Pandemic Aid Programs Spur a Record Drop in Poverty

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Expanding the child tax credit would reduce child poverty to less than 10% in most states, study finds

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Earnings Requirement Would Undermine Child Tax Credit’s Poverty-Reducing Impact While Doing Virtually Nothing to Boost Parents’ Employment

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450 economists just signed a letter in favor of extending the enhanced child tax credit

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Phoenix City Council approves plan to provide $1,000 monthly payments to 1,000 families for a year with ARPA money

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Mayor of Chicago proposes $500 monthly payments for a year to 5,000 families


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Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Gets Pittsburgh City Council’s Initial Approval

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Income Movement

Guaranteed Income in…Texas?

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NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
 

South Africa: Government pushes ahead with basic income grant plans

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Which of Canada’s main parties support basic income?


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BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network

UBI-Europe fundraises to send youth to Strasbourg

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The long march to Basic Income begins with a single step – The unusual story of Kowiti-A


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Oxford Union votes against introducing UBI

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BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network

South Korea: The report on Youth Basic Income in Gyeonggi Province

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EVENTS
BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network

The Monetary Issues of a UBI: First annual FRIBIS conference 12 October


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Bristol Festival of Ideas: 6 October conference on Basic Income


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International Basic Income Week capped with live & online Basic Income Marches

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FROM THE WEB
 
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State-Level UBI and Guaranteed Income Initiatives in the U.S. 

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Future of Work Documentary:
Guaranteed Income on PBS

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Do we need humans for that job? Automation booms after COVID


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Survey Shows People No Longer Believe Working Hard Will Lead To A Better Life

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AUDIO / VISUAL
 

UBI and Donut Economics Video


















 
ACADEMIC LITERATURE
 
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2021 Poverty Projections: Assessing the Impact of Benefits and Stimulus Measures














 

Everything on UBI, catalogued by Karl Widerquist
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OPINIONS & REVIEWS
 
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What Would Andrew Yang's Basic Income Plan Have Meant for New Yorkers?
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Income Movement

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Is Universal Basic Income Still Necessary in a Boom Economy?

 

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Why We Need Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Why It Needs Universal Basic Income (UBI)


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Universal basic income ‘needed to introduce four-day work week’, expert says


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Why UBI should go global

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The USBIG NewsFlash is both the newsletter of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network and the U.S. edition of the Basic Income Earth Network’s NewsFlash. The USBIG Network promotes the discussion of the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) in the United States. BIG is a policy that would unconditionally guarantee at least a subsistence-level income for everyone. 

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