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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

submitted 87 days ago • 185 comments

And this is why UBI is the solution we need.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

A really important thread of information on the many (I did not realise so many!) universal basic income trials. Good evidence for those who are instinctively ideologically opposed. It won’t persuade them, but you know ‘drip drip’.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine if we rejected the public school system because there might be problems and inefficiencies. Imagine if only private schools existed and poor kids never got an education. Why is healthcare any different? open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Way to go, Spokane!

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Deny Depose Defend

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Columbus single mothers to get monthly payments in new, first-of-its-kind income program www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

UBI isn't just a policy; it's a test of our values We stand at a crossroads. One road leads into a dystopian future; the gap in inequality widens, breeding social unrest. The other leads to shared prosperity and hope; here, a dignified life is a right, not a luxury. Choose wisely!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

It's a shame Robert Stack hasn't posted anything on social media since he died. Cuz that would've been the greatest Unsolved Mystery of all. #UnsolvedMysteries

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

[Reproducing my most viral post] When discussing Universal Basic Income, inevitably the retort comes: "So you just want people to not have to work, is that it?" Accompanied by a smug smirk, expecting me to backpedal and hem and haw, say "Of course not, that's silly." Except...yes. Yes, I do. 1/11

submitted 106 days ago • 11 comments

Love everything being said here about #UBI. It could potentially shift our entire society. Which is, unfortunately, why the oligarchy will never let it happen.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Some good news on #UBI. I hope our pilot get some good funding news soon.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

#Meanwhile @stephenathome.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Time to wake up from the 20th century Just Over Broke Justification Of Being Jobs, Jobs, Jobs #JobTrance Rip Van Winkle .. with #UBI circulated as upgraded universal #SocialSecurity Trust Fund dividends indexed to 50%PerCapitaGDP.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I try to make it easier to amplify posts in support of Unconditional Universal Basic Income by sharing what I think are the best ones to save you the time. You can help by sharing what I share about UBI. Grow your network too by following those who've shown their support for UBI. #BasicIncome #UBI

submitted 106 days ago • 4 comments

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome for #CommunityProsperity

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Injecting cash directly into citizens' accounts as a social dividend, via Federal Monetary Policy, would re-frame universal basic income from income support to a citizenship right, unconditionally redistributing national wealth, similar to how COVID checks were distributed. #UBI #SocialDividend

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

#ubi

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UBI debate with @scottsantens.com starting now. www.linkedin.com/events/autom...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Just remember: when elected officials do not possess the skills required to do the job they were elected to do they focus on things like bathrooms. Our politicians are clowns.

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Pay attention to Oklahoma. Bibles in classrooms isn't the big story. The same legal teams behind the seeding of Dobbs are driving a case to create religious schools fully funded by the public & they've already petitioned the Supreme Court. Understandably, everyone was focused on the election.

submitted 105 days ago • 372 comments

An important point about UBI, Universal Basic Income!

submitted 107 days ago • 5 comments

I now have 10,000 followers here but over 5.9 million at the other place. If you want Me to switch for good I need you to get the word out that I'm here, pathetically desperate for worship (just like in real life), and filled with even more contempt for you here than I was there.

submitted 108 days ago • 505 comments

Thousands of people have joined a 9-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a contentious bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people. 🔗: aje.io/xjwsi8

submitted 108 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: Doug Ford makes Starlink deal with Elon Musk to bring high-speed election interference to remote Ontarians

submitted 108 days ago • 53 comments

Somebody tell Nick Wright, CDot, and Mayor Q to get over here!

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking news: The fate of far-right website Infowars will be controlled by the Onion after the satirical news site emerged as the winning bidder of Wednesday’s private auction of the media company founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

submitted 108 days ago • 43 comments

With Michael Smerconish on @cnn.com this past weekend... youtu.be/sjwYQ4kIgEw?...

submitted 110 days ago • 20 comments

Can someone explain to this #Bluesky newbie how to turn off haptic feedback?

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

14 November 1924 | Polish Jewish girl, Hina Nadolna, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France. She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 24 July 1942. She did not survive.

submitted 109 days ago • 15 comments

And a little bit about Bluesky...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

eX-Twitter users are reportedly now arriving at Blue Sky on small boats.

submitted 109 days ago • 138 comments

The move of social media platform X toward the political right has turned some users away, and one of the beneficiaries has been Bluesky. Here's what to know about Bluesky

submitted 109 days ago • 43 comments

Best political activities are local. #UBI works.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

#UBI results in more trust, agreeableness and social cohesion, and less anxiety, depression and crime. And with the rise of AI especially, it’s a must!

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

I was able to provide my girlfriend a #UBI while she was starting her own business. Now it's wildly successful. Everyone needs that opportunity.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

#UBI is direct cash assistance. It treats people as adult decision-makers, trusting their ability to manage their groceries, allowing them to buy toothpaste, shampoo, sanitary pads, prescription medications, etc., free of means testing. Let's means test #Wealthfare instead.

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

Means testing absolutely has to disappear.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments