16 Reasons Matt Yglesias is Wrong about the Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income
Yes, sending a check to people is not as “messy,” but let’s stop pretending that it’s a panacea for the fundamental problem of economic insecurity.
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.
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.