A universal basic income (UBI) is an idea whose time has definitely come, especially considering the devastating COVID-19 related business and job disruptions. As well as covering basic costs for the duration of the pandemic, a UBI can and will help businesses retool, restructure and… Read More »UBI self-defeating unless funded by rental value capture – Point A
Major internet-based platforms like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (FAANG) command monopolies allowing them to charge well beyond their costs. (The House Antitrust Subcommittee determined in October 2020 that Facebook wields monopoly powers in social network and has maintained its position by acquiring, copying or killing its competitors.)… Read More »Platform Capitalism is Eating Your Town
I was talking with my brother about his experiences as a small business owner during the current COVID crisis. Jay and his wife, Christina, run a gym in Long Island City, a neighborhood in Queens, New York. During the mandated shutdown, the fitness industry has… Read More »UBI/PPP Response Op Ed
At RSF, our belief, one in which we advocate, is that each and every person in the United States has a right to enjoy a basic quality of life; a quality of life that reflects the incredible technological advances and economic wealth this country possesses.… Read More »RSF Position on Creating a Fair and Equitable Normal (Post COVID-19)
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by Fred Foldvary image : wikipedia Universal Basic Income (UBI) is defined as income that is provided to every person who resides in a specified locality, without any conditions other than residency. Income to a minor would be held in a trust and used to… Read More »Universal Basic Income
by Matthew Downhour Although he failed to garner any delegates and has suspended his campaign, Andrew Yang ran perhaps the most remarkable campaign of the primary. Despite having no political experience, and without a massive personal fortune to self-fund with, Yang managed to build a… Read More »What Happened to the Freedom Dividend
BY JUSTINE COLEMAN – 02/13/20 09:54 PM ESTFormer presidential candidate Andrew Yang said Thursday that he thinks New York City should implement a universal basic income. The entrepreneur was asked in his “exit interview” in The New York Times whether he thought enacting the central policy from his campaign in… Read More »Yang: NYC should implement universal basic income
September 26, 20192:12 PM ET Bill Chappell Twitter The gap between the richest and the poorest U.S. households is now the largest it’s been in the past 50 years — despite the median U.S. income hitting a new record in 2018, according to new data… Read More »U.S. Income Inequality Worsens, Widening To A New Gap
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