Social Justice

Denver Basic Income Project Could Run Out of Funding by Year End

Jennifer Oldham / Collective Colorado Oct 10, 2024 One of the nation’s largest guaranteed monthly income experiments gives unhoused people up to $1,000 cash every month with no strings attached. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

California City Experiments With Universal Income

ADAM BEAM / The Associated Press Sep 3, 2019 Stockton residents are getting $500 a month in a test of universal basic income, an idea some 2020 presidential candidates are flirting with. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Why Are Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos So Obsessed With Space?

Marshall Auerback / Independent Media Institute Jul 18, 2019 Forget about multinationals moving their plants to Mexico or China. Workers could be replaced soon by robot-operated factories in orbit. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Democrats Can Have Their Progressive Policies and Pay for Them Too

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Jul 8, 2019 As China and Japan have long demonstrated, the government can generate the money it needs simply by creating it on the books of its own banks. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Can We Trust Billionaires to Save Democracy?

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 3, 2019 Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen’s plan to revamp democracy and put capital in the hands of the people has one glaring blind spot. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Universal Basic Income Will Make Serfs of Us All

Valerie Vande Panne / Independent Media Institute Jan 15, 2019 The proposal has found support from progressives and conservatives alike. But spending more money can't solve capitalism's ills. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Dec 27, 2018 A program to provide adults with a steady paycheck can be funded without driving up taxes or prices. Here's how it might work. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs on His ‘Calling’ to Turn His Hometown Around

Emily Wilson / Truthdig Sep 6, 2018 The California city’s wunderkind mayor has big plans—including a basic income plan—to make good on his buzzed-about potential. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

California Mayor Has a Radical Plan to Fight Poverty

Ilana Novick Jun 5, 2018 Michael Tubbs, the mayor of Stockton, is proposing a guaranteed income of $500 a month for a group of city residents. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Reducing the Wealth Divide Through ‘Economic Democracy’

Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese / Popular Resistance Nov 6, 2017 How we can radically reorganize the economy and government from the bottom up. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Yanis Varoufakis on How to Make Universal Basic Income Work (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Oct 23, 2017 The economist explains why DiEM25, the movement he founded, is opposed to funding universal basic income through taxation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fund Universal Basic Income Without Upping Taxes or Inflation

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt Oct 4, 2017 As automation increasingly makes jobs obsolete, the policy of guaranteeing every citizen a basic income is gaining support around the world. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )