UBI vs FJG
A Federal Job Guarantee is real progress. A UBI advances our deterioration.
Universal Basic Income
Reconstructing the Algebra of Race and Rights
Raul Carrillo argues for permanent, non-discretionary funding of income, healthcare, housing, education, employment for all.
Basic Income, Care, and Wages for Housework
A “lump of money” in the form of a basic income does not resolve the distributional or power inequalities between those with capital and those without.
UBI and Immigrants: Lessons from the Pandemic
Most think of the UBI from a national perspective but comparatively little thought has gone into the global perspective.
Considering and Critiquing Universal Basic Income: Introduction
UBI is both an important topic in its own right and a useful lens for examining recurrent virtues and vices in projects of partial decommodification and universal provision.
Payments to Alaskans are Not a UBI
Instead, we should look to stabilize our national economy with a Federal Jobs Guarantee instead of using a program unique to just one state.
FJG vs. UBI: An MMT Perspective
“Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.”
Neoliberalism at Work through the Universal Basic Income
This simplistic, incorrect, and devastatingly neoliberal plan of instituting a Universal Basic Income will be the final blow against the public purpose and General Welfare Clause as well as an effective coup for the rightwing to establish cash payment as opposed to the services millions desperately need.