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Joe Biden Is Against a Universal Basic Income—and He’s Right
You may have missed it, but the ex-veep jumped back into the game last week with a diss on UBI. He nails a simple truth: People want to work.<p>Former Vice President Joe Biden jumped into the political fray last week with both feet, taking on the concept of universal basic income (UBI) in a blog …
Joe BidenJoe Biden is Right about Universal Basic Income
Most economic policy debates are predictable. Folks on the left urge higher taxes and bigger government while folks on the right advocate lower taxes …
Basic IncomeAnalysts predict that artificial intelligence will be a $14 billion industry by 2023
Exponential Growth<p>A recent report asserts that the artificial intelligence (AI) industry will reach a compound annual growth rate of 17.2 percent by …
IntelligenceLabor MP ridicules universal basic income push and says it would worsen inequality
Jim Chalmers says it would cost the budget billions and would be a ‘backward step’ for Australian workers<p>The Labor MP Jim Chalmers has ridiculed the push to introduce a universal basic income in Australia, saying it would be a “backward step” for workers that could increase inequality and cost the …
Basic IncomeUniversal basic income may counter automation
Losing your job to a robot might not necessarily be all doom and gloom if governments revolutionise the way we can earn a crust.<p>That's the hope of …
AutomationJoe Biden’s Platform for 2020: Anti-Populism
By criticizing the views of both Berniecrats and Trumpites, Biden is positioning himself as the antidote to populism in all its forms and flavors.<p>On Monday, former Vice President Joe Biden wrote a blog post that proves two things: Blogging isn’t dead and neither is Biden’s political career. In …
PoliticsWhy We Need a Universal Basic Income
As Labor Day approached this year, I awaited the lip service of Republicans praising "job creators" and business owners. I knew full well there was …
Liberal ViewFurther Reading
2017-09-22T07:22:46.000Z<p>By: FT Alphaville<p><b>Elsewhere on Friday,</b><p>— Does the Fed believe in secular stagnation?<p>— A food assistance program in Mexico …
Sherlock HolmesA third of UK business leaders support a universal basic income - as robots threaten millions of jobs - NS Tech
A third of Britain’s business leaders support the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI), according to one of the first surveys of industry …
RobotsZuckerberg: 2016 primary fight turning point for Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the 2016 primary elections were a tipping point for his motivation to become more involved in …
Mark ZuckerbergShould There Be a 'Robot Tax' to Offset Human Job Loss from Automation?
It seems that everywhere you look, robots are slowly making their presence felt. Automation has already made enormous inroads into the manufacturing …
RobotsWhy is beloved Joe Biden trying to squash a progressive debate?
Everybody loves Uncle Joe! But he wants to shut down the debate on Universal Basic Income with stern Dad politics<p>0 Comments<p>I believe there is a better way forward. I believe we can – we must – build a future that puts work first. My father used to have an expression. He'd say, "Joey, a job is about …
Liberal ViewFor and against a universal basic income
From <i>Boston Review</i>, a forum on Basic Income in a Just Society (and more). A basic income really could end poverty forever — but to become a reality, …
Basic IncomeJoe Biden just chose a side in the Universal Basic Income debate
Biden Won’t Back UBI<p>Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a economic safety net system in which everyone — regardless of their age, employment status, …
Basic IncomeGuest post: Central Bank Quantitative Easing as an Emerging Political Liability
<i>In this guest post, Victor Xing of Kekselias looks at how central banks are dealing with the distributional effects of their policies.</i><p>While officials …
EconomicsFeminism and the Refusal of Work: An Interview with Kathi Weeks
<i>First published in</i> Political Critique.<p><b>You’re a Marxist, aren’t you? How has Marxist thought informed your work?</b><p>Yes, I count myself as a Marxist, …
Basic IncomeJoe Biden: Universal Basic Income Sells American Workers Short
Former Vice President Joe Biden took a swipe Monday at an increasingly trendy but controversial idea that calls for the government to provide …
Basic IncomeAmerica Needs To Reclaim Our Entrepreneurial Spirit
Starting new businesses is crucial to building a prosperous future for our country and everyone in it.<p>If we fail to come up with good answers for America’s workforce, the American Dream and all that flows from it will not survive. To rebuild America’s vital middle class, create tens of millions of …
Small BusinessBiden rejects universal basic income idea popular in Silicon Valley
Former Vice President Joe BidenJoseph (Joe) Robinette BidenClinton ‘dumbfounded’ by Comey letter days before election Fox's Guilfoyle: Clinton 'mad …
Basic IncomeBiden to oppose universal basic income
Former Vice President Joe Biden tomorrow will push back against "Universal Basic Income," or UBI, one of the most popular suggested solutions to the …
BusinessTECH EXPERT: People who fear robots taking their jobs 'lack imagination'
Dr Catherine Ball. (Source: Vivid Sydney, supplied)<p>There’s been much talk about whether the rise of intelligent robots, machine learning and …
Australian National University5 things you need to know in Australian tech today
Chesnot/Getty Images<p><b>1. Stop sweating about robots taking our jobs</b>, says one expert. At Xerocon in Melbourne, author and entrepreneur Dr Catherine …
Australian Taxation OfficeAll News Articles
Monday, May 22, 2017<p>'Extraordinary': Trump Administration Seeks to Shut Down Lobbyist Ethics Probe<br>Letter from Mick Mulvaney is 'yet another …
James ComeyThe Guardian view on universal basic income: tax data giants to pay for it
Hillary Clinton should have ‘thrown caution to the wind’ and backed yearly payments to US citizens. These could’ve been dividends from a fund financed by levying duties on tech giants that profit from a collective loss of privacy<p>In politics it is claimed that the important things are not what …
Basic IncomeAxios - Axios Future of Work
<b>Welcome back</b>. We're going to try a change here at FoW and move the newsletter's publication date to every Wednesday, so as to be in the middle of the …
Hillary Clinton Didn’t Propose Universal Basic Income Because Centrists Won’t Fix the Future
In 'What Happened,' Clinton says she considered a universal basic income, but "couldn't make the numbers work."<p>Hillary Clinton recently sat down with Vox's Ezra Klein to talk about what she "really thinks" nearly a year after she handily lost an election that was hers to win. The interview, which …
Basic IncomeA Universal Basic Income Would Do Wonders For The U.S. Economy
It’s not a giveaway; it’s a permanent economic stimulus.<p>Introducing a universal basic income (UBI) would give a huge jolt to the U.S. economy, according to a new analysis, one of the first to consider the wider effects of giving everyone in the United States a regular, unconditional cash payment to …
Basic IncomeHillary Clinton’s realism vs. Bernie Sanders’s idealism
Sanders’s new single-payer health care bill and Clinton’s new book, What Happened.<p>Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have remarkably different approaches when it comes to proposing policy changes: If Clinton is a realist, Sanders is an idealist.<p>No, we’re not relitigating the 2016 Democratic primary …
Bernie SandersHow to bring along the left behind
When addressing the rival (but not mutually exclusive) cultural and economic accounts of the populist insurgency on Monday, I wrote that how we …
EconomicsUniversal Basic Income: The Full Rundown
If you’ve been paying attention to recent advancements in artificial intelligence (if not, no worries, just check out some of my older work), you’d know that some very smart people posit that 40% of U.S. jobs can be swallowed by automation in the next 25 years. The melancholy truth is that this is …
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