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

Examples

 * 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)
 * 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)

Substitutes

 * Broad welfare:
 * Mideast - Qatar, et al.
 * Asia - Brunei
 * Nord - Sweden

Analysis

 * Recent research:
 * US in the 1970s
 * Canada (2011 paper)
 * Brasil


 * Pending research:
 * YComb & Sam Altman

Historical proposals

 * 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)

References and notes

 * External links:
 * US BIG (w/ further bibliography)


 * Footnotes: