Finland's result on its UBI experiment: people don't shirk work. And it increases trust, health & wellbeing(thealternative.org.uk)
Almost half of Americans can't pay for their basic needs - CBS News(cbsnews.com)
If you're interested, here are some in-depth interviews with participants of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot(youtube.com)
Preliminary results of the Finnish basic income experiment: self-perceived wellbeing improved, during the first year the employment level has been similar to control group (which has been subject to conditional social security)(epressi.com)
Andrew Yang "Reason Trump Is President Is Because We Automated Away 4 Million Manufacturing Jobs!"(youtube.com)
"Governments have to consider stronger social safety nets, including eventually Universal Basic Income."—Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres at the opening of the 73rd UN General Assembly this morning(twitter.com)
Why is it easier to blame 150,000,000 Americans being 'lazy' rather than 400 Americans being greedy.(i.redd.it)
Study: Universal Basic Income Would Be Rocket Fuel For The US Economy(mavenroundtable.io)
One-third of American households can’t afford food, shelter or medical care — Meanwhile, people in the top 1% control a growing share of the nation’s wealth.(marketwatch.com)
How Taxes On The Wealthy Have Fallen Over The Past 70 Years in America(gfycat.com)
Forget profit. It’s love and fun that drive innovation.(theguardian.com)
A new examination of the Alaska Permanent Fund's, a $61-billion communal resource backed by oil, which has been running for more than 35 years, economic impact shows that the universal payments didn't incite people to quit their jobs and actually increased part-time work.(futurism.com)
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says - The U.S. has wasted over $14 trillion on warfare over the past three decades — money that, could’ve been invested in domestic infrastructure and programs for the American people.(cnbc.com)
Bernie: "Here's my $70 billion plan for free college" — Congress: "There's no money for that... OK now let's add $80 billion to the Pentagon budget"(twitter.com)
Prescriptions may get filled by the bright, yellow arms of a robot. Walgreens is planning to open automated, robot-powered fulfillment centers across the U.S. to aid in processing prescriptions. It will open 22 centers serving more than 8,500 of its nearly 9,000 U.S. stores over the next three years(news.yahoo.com)
But the U.S. is also the only rich country in the world where the mortality rate has been going up, not down. Much of that trend is driven by men without college degrees in America’s heartland, according to Brookings. "...and almost 20% of prime aged males are out of the labor force"(finance.yahoo.com)
Housing as a Commodity(toughnickel.com)
Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism: Millennials are bearing the brunt of the economic damage wrought by late-20th-century capitalism. All these insecurities — and the material conditions that produced them — have thrown millennials into a state of perpetual panic(vox.com)
Andrew Yang: "I was invited to meet with Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, by a friend. Richard is one of the most prominent leaders who has already come out in favor of Universal Basic Income (others include Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Albert Wenger, and more)."(reddit.com)
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks(ellenbrown.com)
What Native American Nations can teach us about universal basic income | We often talk about the desire for more trials and programs that give people unconditional cash, but one has been going on for decades: per capita payments in Sovereign Native American Nations.(basicincomepodcast.com)
Farmers across the United States will soon begin receiving government checks as part of a billion-dollar bailout to buoy growers experiencing financial strain from President Donald Trump's trade disputes with China.(abcnews.go.com)
Ontario Basic Income Experiment Payments Extended to March 31, 2019(out.reddit.com)